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DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  BRIDGE, 


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INTRODUCTION. 


SMALL  as  this  book  is,  it  is  yet  much  larger,  and  has  called  for 
much  more  labor  and  inquiry,  than  it  was  supposed  would  be 
necessary  in  order  to  complete  a  pretty  full  register  of  the  descend- 
ants of  Deacon  John  Bridge. 

I  have  been  helped  in  my  work  in  unlooked-for  ways,  and  to  an 
unexpected  extent.  Now  and  then,  too,  I  have  been  baffled  in  secur- 
ing information  which  I  had  thought  easily  attainable.  Grateful  to 
many,  whom  I  may  not  mention,  for  their  aid  and  interest.  1  must 
particularly  express  my  indebtedness  to  a  few.  for  important  services 
necessarv  to  any  approach  towards  completeness  which  I  may  have 
been  able  to  make  in  some  branches. 

In  the  line  of  the  second  Matthew,  helped  by  the  energetic  kind- 
ness of  Mrs.  E.  I.  Lovett.  and  of  Miss  Anne  M.  Kilham.  we  have  a 
nearlv  complete  genealogy.  One  great  trouble  has  been  in  tracing 
the  line  of  Nathaniel  the  Teacher.  But  even  here  the  good  services 
of  Mrs.  Waldo  Adams,  and  of  Mr.  S.  J.  Bridge,  have  finally  availed 
to  make  the  tale,  for  the  most  part,  tolerably  perfect. 

The  study  of  the  line  of  Joseph  has  been  perplexing,  and  the 
results  more  defective  than  I  had  reason  to  hope.  Many  of  his 
descendants  have  shown  a  hearty  wish  to  help  me.  but  no  one  could 
furnish  much  other  desired  matter  than  what  facts  each  could  tell 
about  his  own  family. 

Of  this  line  I  am  indebted  to  Mr.  Charles  A.  Bridge  of  Boston  for 
his  active  interest  in  the  work,  which  led  him  to  suggest  the  issue  of 
circulars  of  inquiry  among  the  descendants  of  Deacon  John  Bridge, 
and  for  his  kind  offer  to  attend  to  the  printing  of  these  circulars. 
The  Lev.  William  D.  Bridge  of  New  Haven,  also  of  this  line,  seemed 
eager,  by  the  issue  of  circulars  and  otherwise,  to  give  me  effi- 
cient aid. 

Several  members  of  this  family  early  strayed  widely  from  home. 
George,  one  of  the  grandsons,  may  have  settled  in  Madison  County. 
in  Central  New  York.     If  so.  a  register  of  many  of  his  posterity 


4  INTRODUCTION. 

might  be  made.  But  that  this  was  the  fact  was  not  evident  enough, 
nor  was  the  account  of  the  New  York  family  precise  and  full  enough, 
to  determine  me  to  follow  out  his  line. 

Mr.  Charles  Bridge  of  Albany  has  furnished  a  large  part  of  the 
matter  concerning  the  children  of  Ebenezer,  son  of  John,  and  has 
introduced  me  to  a  correspondence  which  has  enabled  us  to  trace 
most  of  that  line.  The  interest  of  Mr.  Guv  Sylvester  Bridge  in  his 
family  line  has  been  of  good  service  to  us  both. 

For  an  account  of  the  posterity  of  Franklin  Bridge,  a  grandson 
of  Samuel,  I  am  indebted  to  Mr.  Edward  C.  Lowe  of  Water- 
ville.  Me. 

To  Miss  Hannah  E.  North  I  am  very  grateful  for  several  items 
of  information  with  regard  to  Samuel's  descendants,  and  for  the 
opportunity  to  examine  the  Bible  owned  by  the  first  Matthew,  and 
to  study  the  results  of  large  labors  in  England  ;  though,  as  these 
labors  seemed  to  me  to  lead  to  no  certain  conclusion,  I  have  not 
thought  it  well  to  present  any  digest  of  them  here. 

Beside  the  important  help  he  has  rendered  in  tracing  many  of  the 
descendants  of  Matthew  and  of  John,  I  am  indebted  to  Mr.  Samuel  J. 
Bridge  for  invaluable  services,  both  direct  and  indirect,  in  my  study 
of  his  own  branch,  —  that  of  the  descendants  of  Samuel.  Indeed,  a 
large  part  of  the  merit  of  this  genealogy,  whatever  that  merit  may 
be,  is  due  to  him  who  moved  me  to  undertake  it,  and  who  has  con- 
tinually been  eager  to  do  all  in  his  power,  by  inquiry  and  otherwise, 
to  render  it  full  and  free  from  imperfections. 

WILLIAM   F.  BRIDGE. 
Foster's  Crossing,  Ohio, 
Jan.,  1884. 

I  have  sometimes  had  occasion  to  change  the  dates  which  I  have 
found  in  books  or  manuscripts  to  make  them  correspond  with  tran- 
scripts from  town  records,  or  from  the  registers  of  family  Bibles.  I 
cannot,  of  course,  hope  that  I  have  fallen  into  no  errors  in  this 
matter  of  dates.  I  can  only  say  that  I  have  been  as  cautious  and 
carefnl  as  possible. 


THE 


DESCENDANTS  OF   JOHN   BEIDGE. 

DEACON   JOHN   BRIDGE. 

JOHN    BRIDGE,  whose  descendants  we  are  to  trace,  was  horn, 
we   may  with  reason  take   for  granted,  in   Essex  County.    Eng- 
land, about  the  year  1578. 

His  parentage  seems  undiscoverable.  All  that  we  know  suggests 
or  favors  the  conclusion  that  he  was  near  of  kin,  cousin,  or.  perhaps, 
brother,  of  William  Bridge,  the  steadfast  and  respected  Noncon- 
formist divine  of  Norwich,  who  was  a  prominent  member  of  the 
Westminster  Assembly,  and  author  of  discourses  that  are  still  read 
and  prized. 

John,  undoubtedly,  was  a  Franklin,  a  good  representative  of  a 
class  whose  character  is  depicted  by  a  writer  of  that  time  as  ••  One 
whose  outside  is  an  ancient  yeoman  of  England,  though  his  inside 
may  give  arms  with  the  best  gentleman  and  never  see  the  herald. 
He  is  lord  'paramount  within  himself;  and,  to  end  all,  he  cares  not 
when  his  end  comes.  He  needs  not  fear  his  audit,  for  his  quietus  is 
in  Heaven." 

That  he  was  of  a  lineage  respectable  for  character  is  clear,  not 
only  from  what  we  know  of  himself,  but  from  whatever  mention  we 
can  find  of  those  of  his  name  in  that  generation. 

self-respect,    and   a   special   regard  to  religious  obligation  -    to 

mark  them  all. 

They  were  intelligent,  sincere  Puritans.     And  m:  was  a  mai 
in--   all   honor.     A   man  of   the  people,  in  earnest,  without  pretense, 
without    putting    himself    forward.  lie    left  England,   he  had 

won.  by  his  integrity,  energy,  and  intelligence,  the  confidence  and 
regard  of  those  of  higher  social  rank:  and.  from  the  day  he  joined 
the  colony  in  the  New  World,  he  was  evidently  a  trusted  and  efficient 
leader. 


6  DESCENDANTS    OF    JOHN    BRIDGE. 

He  came  to  New  England  with  the  Braiutree  Company,  or  with 
the  Hooker  Company,  as  it  was  indifferently  called.  This  company 
reached  Mount  Wollaston,  and  was  assigned  to  Cambridge  in 
1632. 

This  was  the  year  before  that  in  which  Hooker  himself  came. 
John  was  probably  from  Chelmsford.  Braintree,  or  that  neighbor- 
hood. .  Various  circumstances  lead  to  this  conclusion.  Among 
others,  his  intimacy,  which  seems  to  have  been  close,  with  Hooker 
and  with  Shepherd. 

Hooker  had  not  been  here  eight  months,  when,  on  May  14.  1634, 
many  of  the  Newtown  people  asked  leave  of  the  General  Court  to 
look  out  for  "  enlargement  or  removal." 

••Without  understanding  their  plan."  says  Palfrey,  "leave  was 
granted."  In  the  following  September,  Hooker,  with  others,  pro- 
posed a  removal  to  the  Connecticut  Valley.  He  urged,  among  other 
reasons,  their  poverty,  their  inability  to  support  their  minister,  their 
being  crowded,  and  the  strong  !">nf  of  spirit  thither. 

It  seems  not  improbable  that  Hooker's  dissatisfaction  with  his 
position  at  Cambridge,  conceived  so  soon  after  his  arrival  here,  was 
the  occasion  of  John  Bridge's  urging  Shepherd  to  come  over,  to 
which  reference  has  been  so  often  made  ;  with  the  assurance,  as 
Shepherd  says,  of  finding  a  place  in  the  colon}-  for  him. 

However  that  may  be.  we  know  that  after  a  previous  unsuccessful 
attempt  to  leave  England.  Shepherd  did  reach  our  shores  in  Oct., 
L635.  And  in  the  following  June  Hooker  started  with  his  large 
company  for  the  west. 

Hooker  drew  off  with  him  to  the  banks  of  the  Connecticut  a  large 
portion  of  the  early  settlers  of  Cambridge.  Bridge,  however,  had 
evidently,  from  the  first,  determined  to  establish  himself  permanently 
in  the  New  Towne.  Accordingly,  on  the  August  after  the  June  when 
the  dissatisfied  Cambridge  men  first  asked  leave  to  go  elsewhere,  one 
hundred  acres  of  land  on  the  west  side  of  Charles  River  are  granted 
to  Symon  Willard,  seventy-five  acres  to  John  Bridge,  and  twenty-five 
to  Dollard  Davis. 

And  the  next  year,  the  Proprietor's  Records  tell  of  the  grant  of 
land  iust  mentioned,  and.  beside,  describe  in  the  following  manner 
his  house-lot  in  connection  with  others. 

••  Grant  to  Dollard  Davis.  June  4,  1635  one  house-lot  of  half  a 
rood  more  or  less  ;  Water  Street  northwest  John  Bridg  southwest, 
William  Andrews  northeast.  William  Westwood  east." 

I  copy  from  Mr.  Horace  Davis's  sketch  of  his  ancestor.  Dolor 
Davis,  the  above  quotation.     The  place  of  John's  first  house  at  Cam- 


DEACON   JOHN   BRIDGE.  7 

bridge  is  marked  in  the  map  which  Mr.  Paige  has  prefixed  to  his 
history  of  the  town  according  to  the  plan  herewith  given.  It  will  be 
observed  that  in  the  re-distribution  of  the  lots  in  1C42.  after  the 
departure  of  Hooker  and  his  company,  John  had  disposed  of  his  lot 
(50)  and  took  Lot  42.  on  the  northeast  corner  of  Winthrop  (Long) 
and  of  Holyoke  (Crooked)  Street. 


NORTH. 


John  Bridse, 
K4-2.  ' 
Lot  No.  42. 


Long  Street,  now  Winthrop  Street. 


WEST. 


Lot  4'.'. 

Dolor  Davis 

i  rood. 


Lot  48. 
Win.  Westwood. 
I  rood. 


|  rood. 

John  Bridge,  1038. 

Lot  50. 


1  rood. 

Thomas  Fisher 

Lot  51. 


Marsh  Lam-,  now  South  Street. 


SOUTH. 


EAST. 


But  we  have  no  reason  to  suppose  John  ever  lived  on  Lot  No.  42. 
On  the  contrary,  about  1638,  he  owned  a  house  and  about  twelve 
acres  of  land  on  Brattle  Street,  where  was  his  permanent  home. 
Mr.  S.  J.  Bridge  has  ascertained,  beyond  a  doubt  on  his  part,  that 
the  Craigie  House,  Washington's  Headquarters,  the  home  of  Long- 
fellow, now  stands  on  this  land. 

A-  hi-  friend  Shepherd,  whom  he  had  helped  to  draw  from  Eng- 
land, refused  the  solicitations  of  Hooker  to  follow  that  pioneer,  so 
our  ancestor  was  bound  all  the  more  to  remain  at  Cambridge  to  be 
the  constant  assistant  and  supporter  of  his  pastor  and  friend. 


8  DESCENDANTS   OF   JOHN   BRIDGE. 

John  Bridge  was  a  man  of  "deeds,  not  words,"  so  we  have  but 
little  but  the  record  of  what  he  did.  or  was  called  to  do,  handed 
down  by  which  to  judge  of  him.  Bnt  these  things  he  was  set  to  do, 
so  numerous,  so  important  for  the  service  of  the  infant  colony,  prove 
him  to  have  been  of  good  common  sense,  of  sound,  roundabout  judg- 
ment, of  unbending  integrity,  and  of  an  unwearied  energy.  He 
made  these  qualities  serve  for  a  liberal  education  and  for  a  high 
descent. 

And  therefore  it  was  because  of  these  well  trained  and  exorcised 
faculties  of  his  that  he  is  made  of  use  in  all  sorts  of  public  service 
from  the  start. 

The  town  is  to  be  organized  ;  he  is  put  upon  the  first  Board  of 
"  Townsmen,"  as  its  selectmen  were  then  called,  men  to  whom  the 
general  oversight  of  all  town  affairs  was  to  be  entrusted.  And  he 
continues  so  to  serve  for  at  least  twelve  years,  almost  consecutively, 
while  the  new  office,  peculiar  to  New  England,  and  established  in 
Cambridge,  among  the  first  towns  to  adopt  it,  is  getting  its  work 
defined  and  is  taking  its  character. 

It  was  not  till  1634  that  ecclesiastical  and  civil  affairs  began  to  be 
regarded  as  belonging  to  separate  provinces  in  the  Colony.  Natu- 
rally,—  almost,  or  quite  of  necessity.  —  men  of  intelligent  earnest- 
ness, who  regarded  their  religious  obligations  their  most  important, 
their  all-iucluding,  obligations,  and  who  left  a  cherished  home  very 
reluctantly,  and  only  at  the  call  of  an  imperative  duty,  solely  because 
they  were  hindered  in  their  fidelity  to  those  obligations,  —  such  men, 
in  the  circumstances  of  the  Puritan  Fathers,  would  nut  conceive 
of  the  idea  of  a  government  for  themselves  apart  from  their 
church. 

But  very  soon  experience  taught  that  some  distinction  must  lie 
made.  Connected  with  the  dawning  of  the  idea  of  such  a  distinction 
was  the  plan  adopted  of  sending  representatives  to  a  general  court, 
which  should  have  management  of  civil  affairs.  Hitherto,  all  free- 
men, that  is.  all  church  members,  took  direct  part  in  the  government. 
It  was  not  till  1G36  that  representation  was  first  roughly  apportioned, 
allowing  no  representative  to  a  town  of  less  than  ten  freemen,  one 
representative  to  twenty  freemen  or  less,  two  to  forty,  and  to  no 
town  more  than  three.  And  the  next  year,  and  for  the  three  follow- 
ing years,  John  Bridge  must  find  leisure  from  church  and  town 
affairs,  for  a  time,  to  go  to  the  infant  Legislature,  where  he  is  imme- 
diately put  upon  committees  of  diverse  kinds,  to  run  town  line-,  to 
lay  out  lands,  to  do  whatever  seems  most  important  for  the  forming 
State. 


DEACON   JOHN   BBIDGE. 

The  church  at  New  Towne  is  organized  in  1635.  He  is  chosen  at  its 
start  its  deacon,  —  chosen,  that  is,  to  the  most  honored  office  a  layman 
could  then  hold,  an  office  which  implied  its  holder  was  recoguized  as  a 
head  man  in  the  community  not  less  than  in  the  church.  The  church, 
indeed,  was  the  community,  or  stood  for  it.  In  this  Commonwealth. 
where  church  members  were  the  only  citizens  to  whom  the  franchises 
ged,  the  officers  of  the  church  discharged  very  many  of  the 
duties  of  the  magistrates  even  when  the  distinction  between  civil 
and  ei  -  ical  affairs  had  long  been  recognized.     And  they  re- 

ceived a  deference  greater  than  the  magistrates,  as  such,  could  ordi- 
narily claim.  All  grants  of  lands,  for  example,  were  theu  certified 
by  a  committee  consisting  of  ministers  and  deacons. 

The  school  is  started  in  1636.  In  1642,  it  is  directed  that,  "  ac- 
cording Order  of  Court  for  Townsmen  to  see  to  Education  of 
Children.  John  Bridge  shall  take  care  of  all  families  on  tha  side  of 
the  highway  his  hor.se  is  ou." 

Thus,  as  townsman  aud  statesman,  and  as  one  interested  in  the 
intellectual,  moral,  and  religious  welfare  of  the  infant  colony,  our 
ancestor  wrought  his  disinterested,  modest,  faithful,  busy,  honorable 
life  into  the  life  of  the  Commonwealth  for  more  than  thirty  years. 
To  bless  his  posterity,  there  is  left  on  our  early  Colony  State  Papers 
the  record  of  his  useful  activity  in  the  varied  important  work  bidden 
him  to  do.  For  his  undoubted  fidelity,  let  his  posterity  pronounce 
him,  top,  blessed,  and  honor  his  name  by  cherishing  a  like  fidelity, 
aud  a  like  modest,  hearty,  intelligent,  carefully-trained  consecration 
of  themselves  to  the  common  weal ;  that  they  may  be  ready  in  their 
lot,  a-  he  was  in  his.  to  do  the  efficient,  beneficent  service  for  which 
the  State  will  ever  have  abundant  occasion  to  call. 


10  FIRST    A>\: 


FIRST    GENERATION. 
(1)  1.  J'  - 

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SECOND    GENERATION. 
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one  of  the  largest  Landholders  of  (  -.  he 

In  l  John  Marrett,  and  thus 

that  bound  him  to  the  old  home.     I 

lift'  time,  be  had  energetically 

lement.     And  when  ti.  lized  in   1692,  be 

helped  in  ii  nation,  as,  before,  when  the  rnectii 

built,  be  contributed  build  that,  —  more  lai 

thai 


. 


DEACOB    JOHN    BRIDGE. 


11 


When  the  Brst  parish  lax  was  laid,  we  find  the  four  leading-  tax- 
payers to  have  been  Samuel  Stone,  William  Munroe,  Benjamin 
Muzzay,  and  Matthew  Bridge. 

It  is  noteworthy  that  the  community  at  Cambridge  was,  from  its 
general  intelligence,  for  which  it  was  distinguished,  or  on  some  other 
account,  but  little  troubled  by  presumed  eases  of  witchcraft;  and 
that,  in  perhaps  the  only  important  instance  of  supposed  possession, 
the  victims  were  declared  innocent.  Two  certificates  to  the  Christian 
character  of  Winnefret  Holman,  and  to  her  evident  freedom  from  all 
signs  of  possession  are  presented,  which  we  may  suppose  released 
her  from  her  danger.  These  are  now  valuable  witnesses  of  the  good 
sense  and  intelligence  of  John  Palfrey  and  of  Matthew  Bridge,  who 
are  prominent  signers  of  the  one,  and  of  Anne  (Danforth)  Bridge, 
Elizabeth  Bridge,  and  John  Bridge,  who  signed  the  other. 

In  1643,  Matthew  became  a  member  of  the  Artillery  Company. 
In  the  same  year,  he  m.  Anne,  dan.  of  Nicholas  and  Elizabeth 
(Svmmes)  Danforth. 

Nicholas  Danforth,  son  of  Thomas,  and  grandson  of  Thomas, 
father  of  a  distinguished  line,  and  himself  an  honored  man,  came 
from  Framingham,  County  of  Suffolk,  Eng.,  in  1634.  His  wife, 
Elizabeth  Svmmes,  d.  at  her  English  home  on  Feb.  22,  162'.). 
She  was  the  dau.  of  Rev.  William  Symmes,  whose  father,  Wil- 
liam, with  his  wife,  suffered  during  Queen  Mary's  reign.  Her 
brother,  Rev.  Zechariah  Symmes,  came  over  in  1034,  and  was  settled 
in  Charlestown.  For  these  facts  concerning  Mrs.  Danforth,  I  am 
indebted  to  the  editors  of  a  forthcoming  book  of  the  Danforth  family, 
that  all  descendants  of  John  Bridge  must  eagerly  look  for. 

Anne  Danforth  was  horn  circa   1620;   was  hap.  Nov.  3,  1622,  and 
d.  Dec.  2,  1704.     Matthew  d.  Dec.  28,  1700. 

1.  1.  John,  b.  June  !•">.  I'd."):  d.  in  Boston,  1672. 

5.  2.  Anne,  1).  in  1646;  m.  June  4,  1668,  Samuel,  son  of  John  and  Grace 
Livermore  of  Watertown.  March  10,  1681,  John  Livermore  con- 
veys by  deed  to  his  son  Samuel,  "as  a  recompense  of  that  dutiful 
obedience  that  the  said  Samuel  hath  yielded  to.  aid  thereby  hath 
,,  through  God's  blessing,  a  comfort  and  a  support  to  the  said 
John  and  family,"  his  homestead.  34  acres,  with  a  dwelling-house, 
etc.  Also  20  acres  of  woodland.  See  Pond's  Watertown,  Liver- 
more, 20.  Anne  was  ancestress  of  many  distinguished  persons, 
especially  in  the  church. 

0.  ■).  Martha.  0.  Jan.  1  1,  1649;   d.  Jan.  15.  1650. 

7.  4.  Matthew  (1). 

8.  5.  Samuel,  b.  Feb.  17.  1653;  d.  Feb.  25,  1673. 

9.  G.  Thomas,  0.  dune  1.  1655;  d.  March  28,  1673. 


12  SECOND   GENERATION. 

10.  7.  Elizabeth,  b.  Aug-.  IT.  1059:  m.  Jan.  19,  1678,  Captain  Benjamin,  son 

of  Edward  Garfield,  jr.,  and  of  Rebecca,  his  first  wife.  See  Bond, 
Garfield,  5.  17.  From  Elizabeth  descended  in  the  seventh  genera- 
tion James  Abram  Garfield,  the  late  President.  For  the  President's 
line  of  descent,  see  Appendix  I.  For  Elizabeth's  children,  see 
Bond,  pp.  232  seq.,  Benjamin,  d.  Nov.  28,  1717,  and  Elizabeth,  m. 
her  second  husband  Oct.  25,  1720,  Daniel,  sou  of  Fiobert  and 
Susanna  (George)  Harrington. 

(3)  Thomas  Bridge  (3.  2)  was  b.  in  England.  He  early  engaged 
in  business  in  Boston.  He  became  a  member  of  the  Artillery  Com- 
pany in  1643,  and  was  made  freeman  in  1648.  He  d.,  says  Paige, 
before  Nov.  28,  1651,  but  perhaps  not  till  165G.  at  about  the  same 
time  with  his  wife.  Her  name  was  Dorcas.  We  can  trace  only  one 
child  to  Thomas  and  Dorcas  Bridge. 

11.  1.  Dorcas,  b.  Feb.  10.  1619.     After  the  decease  of  her  parents,  she  lived 

with  her  grandfather,  John,  who  was  her  guardian.  She  m.  Jan.  14, 
1666,  Captain  Daniel,  son  of  ruling  elder  Richard  and  Jane  Champ- 
ney.  Daniel  was  b.  March  9,  1645,  and  d.  Xov.  19,  1091.  Dorcas 
d.  Feb.  7,  1081. 

1.  Dorcas,  b.  Aug.  22.  1667. 

2.  Daniel,  b.  Dec.  14,  1669. 

3.  Thomas,  b.  Sept.  12,  1673. 
1.  Noah,  b.  Sept.  27.  1(;77. 

5.  Downing,  b.  June  1,  1080 ;  d.  June  27,  1705. 

6.  Abigail,  b.  April  20.  1683. 

Dorcas  Champney  m.  May  0.  1690,  Nicholas  Bowes,  whose  son, 
Rev.  Nicholas  Bowes,  of  Bedford,  in.  Lucy.  dau.  of  Rev.  Thomas 
Hancock  of  Lexington.  The  dau.  of  Rev.  Nicholas  and  Lucy  (Han- 
cock) Bowes,  also  named  Lucy.  in.  Rev.  Jonas  Clark  of  Lexington, 
whose  dan.  Mary  was  wife  of  Rev.  Henry  Ware,  sen.,  D.I).  A 
grandson  of  Dr.  Ware,  and  so  a  descendant  of  the  first  deacon  of 
the  Cambridge  Churchuand  of  its  early  ruling  elder.  —  Rev.  Edward 
Henry  Hall. —  is  now  pastor  of  the  First  Parish  Church  in  Cambridge. 


DEACON    JOHN    BRIDGE.  13 


THIRD    GENERATION. 

(4)  Matthew  Bridge  (7.4)  wu>  b.  in  Cambridge,  May  5,  1650. 
As  the  only  surviving  son.  he  inherited  a  large  part  of  his  father's 
estate  and  he  seems  to  have  given  himself  to  the  service  of  his 
neighborhood  with  even  more  than  his  father's  en<    _ 

Beside  serving  the  town  of  Lexington   on  its  incorporation   as 
Selectman  and  its  Clerk,  and  for  many  years  as  its  Treasurer,  he  dis- 
charged his  duty  as  a  soldier  in  King  Philip's  War  and  in  the  Canadian 
Expedition  of  1690.     He  was  also  a  prominent  member  of  the  church. 

He  m..  in  1687,  Abigail,  dan.  of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Belcher)  Rus- 
sel  of  Cambridge,  who  was  b.  May  12,  1668,  and  d.  Dee.  14.  1722. 
Matthew  d.  May  29,  1738.  Joseph  was  the  son  of  William  and 
Martha  Russell,  and  came  with  his  parents  from  England.  Mary  was 
dan.  of  Jeremy  aud  Mary  (Lockwood)  Belcher  of  Ipswich. 

12.  1.  Mary,  b.  June  If).  1<;>s:  ni.  circa  1714.  Captain  William  Russell,  who 

d.  Nov.  25,  1731,  aet.  46.     Mary  d.  Dec.  31,  171  i. 
1.  William.  H.  C.   1735,  M.D.,   who   left   two   daughters,  Mary  and 
Elizabeth,  mentioned  in  their  Aunt  Martha's  will. 

13.  2.  Anne.  b.  Sept.  12.  1691;  m.  March  22,  172".  Isaac,  son  of  Abraham 

and  Mary  (Butterfield)  Watson.     They  lived  in  Waltham.     Is 

d.  Feb.  27.  1741.     Mary  d.  Aug.  19.  171-. 

1.  Abraham,  b.  Aug.  2<».  1712. 
•J.  Isaac,  b.  Feb.  ls^  1714. 

14.  3.  Matthew  (a). 

15.  4.  Abigail,  b.  April  1.  1690;  m.  in  1730.  Benjamin,  son  of  Thomas  and 

Elizabeth   (Lawrence)   Whitney    of    Marlborough.      She   was   his 
second  wife.     Their  children  were:  — 

1.  Abigail,    b.    May    13,    17:)1  :    m.    Samuel    Austin,    a    leading  and 

patriotic  citizen  of  Boston.     She  was  his  second  wife,  and  '1..  a 
widow  and  childless,  May.  1793. 

2.  Benjamin,  b.  May  9,  17:;-_':  d.  March  1'-'.  1751. 

3.  George,  b.  March  25,  1 7 -  - • '» :  d.  Dec.  26,  17 

4.  Samuel,  b.  Sept.  •".  1734.     Deso 

5.  Anna.  1>.  Oct.  27,  1736;  m.  William  Bowes,  Dec.  22,  17  II  ;  d.  Jan. 

2.  1762. 

16.  5.  Joseph  (6). 

17.  6.  John  (c). 

1".  7.  Elizabeth.  1..  Nov.  '■>.  1703;  '1.  in  Boston,  Jan.  19,  1751. 

19.  8.  Samuel 

20.  9.  Martha,  b.  Sept  20,  1707;  d.  in  Boston.  April  •_"».  1752. 


14  FOUETH    GENERATION. 

Elizabeth  and  Martha  lived,  after  their  father's  decease,  with  their 
energetic  and  faithful  sister  Abigail,  who.  early  deprived  of  her  hus- 
band, continued  his  business  with  the  success  she  deserved,  and 
wisely  and  well  conducted  the  education  of  her  children.  See 
••  Account  of  Descendants  of  John  and  Elinor  Whitney,"  and  espe- 
cially -Incidents  in  the  Life  of  Samuel  Whitney,  and  Account  of 
his  Descendants."  by  Henry  Austin  Whitney.  Esq.,  which  last  is 
••  privately  printed." 

Matthew  Bridge  is  said  to  have  divided  his  main  farm  of  four 
hundred  acres,  which  lay  compactly,  into  four  parts,  of  one  hundred 
each,  and,  on  the  marriage  of  each  son,  he  saw  to  the  erection 
of  a  substantial  dwelling-house  of  two  stories,  in  the  best  style  of  the 
time,  for  the  Home  of  the  new  family.  These  four  houses  are  still 
standing  "in  a  good  state  of  preservation."  Here  the  four  brothers 
lived  through  their  lives,  in  harmony.  ••  provoking  each  other  "  only 
•'to  good  works  "  of  social  and  civil  service.  They  were  men  of  mark 
in  the  community,  dividing  among  themselves  a  very  large  share  of 
the  town  business. 

FOURTH    GENERATION. 
(a)   The  Family  of  Matthew  Bridge. 

Captain  Matthew  Bridge  (14.  3),  who  was  the  oldest  son  of  Mat- 
thew Bridge,  jr..  was  b.  in  Lexington.  March  1.  1694.  ••Gentle- 
man." is  his  title  in  the  records  of  his  day.  He.  too.  like  his  father, 
served  his  native  town  as  Selectman.  Town-Clerk.  Assessor,  and 
Treasurer,  doing  the  duties  of  one  or  more  of  these  offices  almost 
every  year  from  1732  to  1749. 

In   1751.  he  was  set  off,  with  his  farm,  to  Waltham.     We  find  an 

entry  that  in  that  year  he  "  gave  to  the  town  of  Waltham.  £1  6s.  8d., 

in  consideration  of  his  congregating  with  them."     He  had  bought  in 

"1722,  from  the  Bowman  family,  the  large  property  at  the  corner  of 

Forest  and  Trapelo  Street-. 

He  in.,  March  22.  1720,  Abigail,  dan.  of  Nathaniel  and  Anne 
(Barnard)  Bowman,  and  d.  March  25.  1761.  Abigail  d.  June  15, 
1785,  set.  86.     See  Bond.  p.  89. 

1.  1.  Matthew  (1). 

2.  2.  Anne.  b.  Sept.  21,  1723:  m.  April  7.  17  t-L  Asa  Brooks  of  Concord. 

1.  Asa. 

3.  3.  Nathaniel  (2) 


«?)  MATTHEW    BRIDGE.  15 

Sarah,  b.  Sept.  :'>o.  1728;  m.  April  4.  1 7-_>-).  Jonas,  son  of  Jonas  and 
.    '-ail  (Comee)  Tierce:  sh         -         17,  1772.     Cf.  Bond,  p. 397. 

1.  Jonas,  b.  Feb.  18,  1759. 

2.  Asa,  b.  Jan.  l'"'.  1762. 

3.  Thaddeus,  b.  .May  10,  17 

4.  Mary,  b.  Feb.  11,  1767. 


Anna.  b.  May  31, 


FIFTH     GENERATION. 

■Rev.  Matthew  Bridge  (1.1)  was  b.  July  18,  1721  :  H.  C.  1741  ; 
ordained  at  Framingham,  Feb.  19,  1746;  m.  in  1747.  Anne.  dan.  of 
Rev.  Daniel  I II.  C.  1717)  and  Anne  (Foster)  Perkins  of  West  Bridge- 
water.    She.  after  Matthew's  decease,  in.  April  11.  1780,  in  Sudbury, 

Rev.  Timothy  Harrington  of  Lancaster,  and  d.  in  Framingham.  May 
12. 

On  his  very  ordination  day  began  the  discipline  which  set  forth 
and  helped  develop  his  character.  A  protest  against  his  ordination 
was  made  by  members  of  his  church  to  the  council,  because  he  did 
not.  it  was  urged,  believe  in  the  Five  Points  of  Calvin  then  held  by 
so  many  Congregational  Churches  to  belong  to  the  very  essence  of 
Christianity.  Underneath  the  protest  lay.  too,  the  feeling  that  the 
minister  elect  favored  the,  opposition  of  a  large  part  of  his  church 
members  to  the  methods  of  the  "Great  Awakening."  as  the  revival 
preaching  started  by  Edwards  and  Whitfield  was  called. 

The  opposition  grew,  so  that,  the  next  spring,  a  new  society  was 
formed.  It  was  doubtless  owing,  in  large  part,  to  the  good  sense  of 
their  minister,  to  his  substantial  merits,  to  his  character,  that  this 
persistent  opposition  was  finally  overcome.  —  was  overcome,  notwith- 
standing the  excellent  qualities  of  mind  and  heart  of  the  pastor  of 
the  dissentients  :  so  that,  after  thirteen  years,  their  society  made  up 
their  mind  to  disband,  and  many  of  them  returned  to  the  welcome  of 
the  mother  church. 

And  the  quiet,  persistent,  straightforward  holding  on  and  holding 
out.  in  what  seemed  to  him  to  be  the  path  of  duty,  implied  in  the 
manner  in  which  he  met  this  first  opposition,  seems  to  have  been 
characteristic  of  his  whole  life.  He  was  not  a  great  preacher.  He  was 
something  better  than  that.  — a  good  pa-*L<>r.  and  an  excellent  man. 

He  was  after  the  type  of  some  of  the  best  country  minister-  of  his 
day.  serviceable  to  his  people  as  a  shrewd  adviser  in  their  material 
concern  :  settling  disputes,  making  wills,  conveying  property,  doing 
the  work  of  a  chamber  counsellor  with  the  good  will  of  a  minister. 


16  FIFTH   GENERATION. 

"  Good  "himself,  he  wished  everybody  else  so."  and  thus.  "  because 
of  his  extremely  benevolent  feelings,  he  became  much  beloved  by  his 
people  and  esteemed  by  those  of  other  towns." 

And.  as  is  necessary  to  the  energetic  promoter  of  good  will,  there 
was  the  spirit  of  the  Hero  in  him.  On  the  breaking  out  of  the  war, 
he  knew  that  where  the  encounter  could  not  be  avoided,  save  by  the 
surrender  of  manhood,  there  was  a  place  for  the  minister  of  peace 
even  on  the  field  of  battle.  He  was  one  of  the  first  chaplains  to 
volunteer,  and  had  his  place  assigned  him  by  the  side  of  Washington 
under  the  Great  Elm  at  Cambridge.  He  bore  so  close  a  resemblance 
to  the  commander-in-chief,  "that,  upon  horseback  especially,  it  was 
difficult  to  tell  them  apart." 

••  He  was  over  six  feet  in  height,  with  very  black  hair,  that  fell  in 
curls  over  his  coat  collar.  He  had  piercing  black  eyes  and  an  erect 
form."  He  had  so  fine  a  presence  when  a  young  man  that,  "when 
he  brought  his  wife  into  the  church  on  the  first  Sunday  alter  his  mar- 
riage, the  congregation  rose  at  one  impulse,  as  an  involuntary  tribute 
to  the  striking  dignity  of  this  man  and  of  this  woman." 

And  as  he  was  first,  or  among  the  first,  of  his  profession  to  offer 
his  services  to  his  country  during  the  war.  so  he  was  one  of  the  first 
martyrs  of  the  contest.  A  disease  contracted  by  camp  exposure 
forced  him  home,  to  die.  on  the  2d  of  September.  1775. 

It  surely  would  not  be  amiss  for  Framingham  t<>  raise  to  his 
memory  the  monument  which  the  town  voted  in  1779.  and  which  it 
again  contemplated  in  1801. 

5.  1.  Matthew,  b.  Aug.  10.  1748 :  d.  young. 

6.  2.  Anne,  b.  Sept.  11,  1749;  d.  young. 

7.  3.  Daniel  (3). 

8.  4.  Sarah,  b.  July  9,  1753;    m.  May  27,  1781,   by  Rev.  Josiah  Bridge. 

Rev.  David  Kellogg,  her  father's  successor  in  the  Framingham 
parish.  Dr.  Kellogg  was  b.  in  Amherst,  Nov.  It'.  1755,  son  of 
Daniel  and  Esther  (Smith)  Kellogg.  D.  C.  1775.  D.D.  at  Dart.. 
1824.  A  scholarly  and  excellent  man.  Ordained  at  Framingham, 
Jan.  10,  1781  :  d.  Aug.  13,  1843.     Sarah  d.  Feb.  14.  1826. 

1.  Mary,  b.  Feb.  25.   1782:  m.  July  10,  1801,  John  Ball  Kittredge, 

M.D.,   who    d.    Feb.   2!'.    18*48.       Mary   d.    Aug.,    1836.       One 

daughter. 

2.  Sarah,  b.  Sept.  28,1783;  m.  May  9.  1805,  Dea.  William  Brown,  jr.. 

of  Hollis  Street  Church,  Boston,  who  was  b.  Aug.  7.  1780.     See 
Bond.  p.  138. 


(a)  MATTHEW   BRIDGE.  li 

1.  William  Kellogg,  b.  M.D.,  I).  C.  1829;   m.  (firsl 

wife)   Eh  Hoopei    who  m.  for 

second    wife    Sarah,    dan.    of    Eleanor    (Bridge)    Ingersol 
.5.2). 
•_>.  Charles  Ingersol],  b.  Sept.  26,  1813;  d.  March  29,  1840. 
;.  Henry  I.,  b.  L5;  d.  May  23,  1850;  m. 

4.  Mary  Louisa,  b.  Aug.  28,  1818. 

3.  Nancy,  b.  July  10,  1785.     Not  married. 
1.  Martha,  b.  May  23,  1787.     Not  married. 

5.  Gardner,  b.  Aug.  28,  1788;  m.  Mrs.  Susan  J.  Fairbanks,  and  d. 

April  29,  1842.     She  was  b.  in  1792,  and  d.  April  24,  1847.     No 
children. 

6.  David,  b.  April  2,  1791 ;  m.  June  19,  1823,  Sarah  Prince  of  Thoni- 

aston,  Maine,  who  was  b.  July  20,  1802. 

1.  Frederick  Hoffman,  b.  Aug.  20,  1821. 

2.  Sarah  Brown,  b.  Jan.  18,  1827. 

3.  Eliza  Pope,  b.  Feb.  27,  1829. 

4.  Charles,  b.  July  14,  1831. 

5.  David,  b.  Feb.  23,  1834. 

6.  George  Prince,  b.  June  22,  1836. 

7.  Gardner,  b.  Feb.  26,  1839. 

8.  Edward  Nealey,  b.  Dec.  8,  1841. 

9.  Ellen  Taylor,  b.  June  16,  1814. 

7.  Charles,  b.  April  29,  179:3 ;  d.  at  sea. 

9.  5.  Eleanor,  b.  Oct.  10,  1754;  m.  May  31,  1781,  Captain  Samuel  Ingersol 
of  Salem;  and  d.  Nov.  10,  1819.     He  d.  Oct,  9,  1S07,  set.  61. 

1.  Nancy,  b.  Aug.  8,  1782;  d.  April  29.  1826. 

_'.  Sarah,  b.  March  9,  1784;  m.  Nathaniel  Hooper,  a  widower  with 
eight  children.    His  dau.  Eliza  m.  Dea.  William  Brown.    Cf.  8.  1_. 

3.  Samuel,  b.  1785,  a  sailor,  afterwards  a  clergyman  :  m.  Susan  Whit- 
tlesey of  New  Haven,  but  no  children ;  ordained  June  14.  1S20, 
at  Shrewsbury;  d.  Nov.  14,  1820. 

10.  6.  Richard  Perkins  (4). 

11.  7.  Mary,  b.  Sept.  :;.  1760;  m.  May  8,  17S9,  Hon.  Moses,  son  of  Isaac 

and  Mary  (Balch)  Brown.     See  Bond,  p.  126.     A  remarkable  man. 

1.  Charles,  born  May  24,  1793,  II.  C.  1812;  m.  Dec.  14,  1825,  Eliza- 

beth Isabella,  dau.  of  Bryant  Parrot  and  Zebiah  Cravath  (Brown) 
Tilden.  Zebiah  was  sister  of  Dea.  William  Brown,  jr.,  8.  4.  2., 
and  of  Anne  Lizzie,  wife  of  Rev.  Dr.  Ezra  Styles  Gannett.  See 
Bond.  p.  138.    For  their  children,  see  Brown,  112,  in  Bond.  p.  126. 

2.  George,  b.  Nov.  27,  1794  :  d.  July  25,  1796. 

3.  George,  b.  Nov.  24,  1799;  m.  Harriet,  dau.  of  Daniel  and  Margaiv 

Barns  Bridge.     See  22.  4. 
2 


18  FIFTH    GENERATION. 

(2)  Comet  Nathaniel  Bridge  (3.  3),  first  of  Cambridge,  afterwards 
of  Waltham,  b.  July  18,  1725;  rn.  April  5,  1753.  Mary.  dau.  of 
William  and  Mary  (Saunderson)  Fiske,  and  d.  Dec.  19,  1794. 

Mary  was  b.  July  1,  1734,  and  d.  March  1.  1818.  A  copy  of 
papers  now  before  me,  the  main  part  of  them  originally  furnished  by 
the  head  of  the  Bartlet  (Bartletot)  family,  now  living  in  England, 
seems  to  trace  clearly  her  descent  from  one  at  least  of  the  followers 
of  William  the  Conqueror.  The  descent  is  through  Ensign  Thomas 
Bartlett,  Watertown,  1635,  an  original  proprietor,  whose  youngest 
dau.  Abial  m.  Deacon  Jonathan  Saunderson.  Their  son  Edward 
was  father  of  Mary  (Saunderson)  Fiske.  See  Bond.  pp.  1*  and 
417. 

Cornet  Nathaniel  was  selectman  in  17G7  and  afterwards.  He  was 
known  by  the  title  "Friend  of  Washington,"  whom  --he  used  to 
entertain  at  his  home  while  the  army  was  in  the  neighborhood  of 
Cambridge,"  —  "  A  True  Friend  of  Liberty." 

12.  1.  William  (5). 

13.  2.  Mary,  b.  June  11, 1756  ;  m.,  I.,  Jan.  11,  1776,  William,  son  of  William 

and  Elizabeth  (Brown)  Coolidge.  See  Bond,  p.  171.  He  d.  March 
25,  1779,  set.  29.  Mary  m.,  II.,  Oct.  26,  17S0,  Dea.  Matthias  Bent 
of  Framingham,  and  d.  Dec.  26,  1790. 

1.  William,  b.  Jan.  28,   1777;  m.  Mary  Hale.     Four  children.     See 

Bond,  pp.  171  seq. 

2.  Mary,  b.  in  July ;  d.  Xov.  28,  1778. 

:5.  Mary,  b.  Aug.,  1781 ;  d.  in  infancy. 

.4.  Abigail,  b.  Sept.  10,  1782.     A  writer  of  children's  books,     d.  Sept. 
28,  1811. 

5.  Nancy,  b.  July  8,  1781 ;  d.  Dec.  6,  1S69. 

6.  Martin,  b.  Sept.  28,  1786;  d.  Xov.  11,  1787. 

7.  Matthew,  bap.  Aug.,  1788;  d.  Aug.  15.  1789. 

8.  Isaac,  b.  Dec.  21,  1790 ;  d.  with  his  mother. 

11.  o.  Abigail,  b.  July  21,  175S ;  m.  Sept.  9,  1783,  Nathaniel,  son  of  David 
and  Mary  (Bright)  Bemis.     See  Bond,  p.  21. 

1.  Nathaniel,  b.  June  16,  1781,  H.  C.  1800,  M.D..  M.M.S.S. ;  m.  1812. 

Anna,  dau.  of  John  Richardson,  Esq.,  of  Newton.     For  children, 
see  Bond,  p.  25. 

2.  Charles,  b.  March  21,  1789.  II.  C.  1808,  a  lawyer;  m.  March  2, 

1815,  his  cousin  Anne,  dau.  of  Isaac  and  Mary  (Bemis)  Vose. 
For  children,  see  Bond,  p.  25.  - 

3.  David,  b.  June  20,  1798,  M.D.,  H.  C.  M.M.S.S.     Xot   married. 

Lived  in  Springfield. 

13.  -i.'Xathaniel  (6). 


(a)   MATTHEW    BRIDGE.  10 

16.  5.  Matthew,  b.  in  Aug.;  d.  in  Sept..  17<i3. 

17.  C.  Anna.  b.  Aug.  3,  lTfio;  m.  Aug.  3,  1801,  Isaac,  son  of  Abraham  and 

-   rah  (Wheeler)  Sanderson.     See  Bond,  pp.420  and  931.     Nam- 
was  b.  Oct.  1.  1765;  d.  March  23,  1^.V>.     Anne  d.  March  4.  18i 

1.  Isaac.  1).  Aug.  24,  1805;  m.  Alice  Badlam :  d.  Aug.  28,  1838. 

18.  7.   Sarah,  b.  June  14.  170s :  m.  April  1:5.  1790,  Solomon,  son  of  William 

and  Lydia  (Child)  Flagg.     Bond.  p.  221.     Sarah  d.  May  23,  1855. 
Solomon  was  b.  1761,  and  d.  March  23,  1830.     Xo  children. 


SIXTH    GENERATION. 

(3)   Daniel  Bridge  (7.  3).  b.  Feb.  19,  17-31  :  settled   in   Montreal 

in  1786  ;  m.  Aug.  26,  1793,  Margaret,  dau.  of and  Anne  Barus. 

Margaret's  parents  are  said  to  have  left  Holland  lor  political  reasons. 
She  was  b.  in  Nine  Partners.  X.  Y.,  Jan.  22.  1771.  and  d.  at  St. 
Jacques.  Canada.  Dee.  6,  1825.     Daniel  d.  Feb.  27.  1828. 

19.  1.  Nancy,  b.  Oct.  18,  1794:  m.,  I..  Feb.  13,  1M">.  Philemon  Turrell  of 
Regault,  b.  in  New  Bedford.  Conn.:  II..  May  13.  1824.  Martin 
Strong  Parker.  M.D..  b.  in  Cornwall,  Vt..  Oct.  21.  1784;  d.  Oct.  21. 
1825 :  III..  March  8, 1831,  John  Jefferies  of  Bulkington,  Wilts.  Eng., 
who  was  b.  Xov.  21,  1782:  d.  Aug.  15,  1866. 

1.  Philemon,  b.  Aug.  20,  1817;  d.  March  4.  1821. 

2.  Ariel,  b.  April  5,  1820;  drowned  about  1840. 

3.  Francis  Bridge,  b.  Feb.  21.  1825;  d.  Aug.  22.  1826. 

4.  Nancy  Jane.  b.  Feb.  23.  1832:  m.  Rev.   William  Creighton.  an.'. 

d.  March  19,  1881.     Four  children. 

•jo.  2.  Thomas,  b.  June  11,  1796;  murdered  in  1818. 

21.  3.  Mary  Anne,  b.  Xov.  11,  1798:  d.  Jan.  13.  1813. 

22.  4.  Harrier,  b.  Feb.  11.  1801;    m.  Dec.    9,    1821,  George,  son   of   Hon. 

Moses  and  Mary  (Bridge)  Brown,  —  her  cousin.  See  Bond,  and 
11.  5.  3.  She  d.  Oct.  26,  1859.  He  was  lost  at  sea  with  his  oldest 
sou. 

1.  George  Harrington,  b.  Sept.  8,  1822;  lest,  Aug.,  18 

2.  Charles  Henry,  b.  July  5,  1824;  d.  July  31.  1852. 

3.  Samuel  Patten  Ingersol,  b.  Jan.  27.  1826  :  d.  March  6.  1872. 

4.  Mary  Ella,  b.  Xov.  21.  1827. 

5.  Moses,  b.  June  30,  1834;  d.  Dec.  1.  1879. 

23.  5.  Elizabeth,  b.  April  13,  1S03:  m.  1830,  Daniel  McGie  of  Quebec,  b.    n 

Scotland.     She  d.  July  23,  1834.     Two  children,  d.  young. 


20  SIXTH   GENERATION. 

24.  6.  Richard  Perkins,  b.  April  1,  1805;  d.  Oct.  19,  1843. 

25.  7.  Daniel  (7) . 

26.  8.  John  Andrew  (8). 

(4)  Richard  Perkins  Bridge  (10.  6),  M.D.,  b.  Nov.  3,  1756;  m. 
1778,  Anna,  dau.  of  Rev.  Timothy  and  Anne  (Harrington)  Harring- 
ton of  Lancaster.  Her  father  m.  (his  second  wife)  Anna  (Perkins) 
Bridge,  mother  of  her  husband.  Richard  lived  in  Petersham,  where 
all  his  children  were  born.  He  d.  Aug.  22,  1797.  Anna  m.,  II., 
Dr.  Fisher  of  Beverly. 

27.  1.  Louisa,  b.  Oct.  9,  1779 ;  m.   Captain  Abraham  Kilham  of  Beverly, 

who  was  b.  in  Wenham,  Feb.  19,  1705.     Louisa  d.  Feb.  27,  1857. 

1.  Edward,  b.  Dec.  9,  1807;  m.  Elizabeth  Gross;  d.  Oct.  13,  1854, 

2.  Betsey  L.,  b.  April  10,  1810 ;  d.  Sept,  20,  1828. 

3.  Charles  A.,  b.  Feb.  9,  1812 ;  m.  Hannah  F.  Conant ;  d.  Nov.  :'.7, 

1865. 

4.  Daniel,  b.  Dec.  19,  1813 ;  d.  April  7,  1820. 

5.  Austin  D.,  b.  July  25,  1817;  m.  Sept.  IS,  1842,  Susan  P.  Chad- 

wick. 

1.  Alfred  Austin,  b.  Aug.  24,  1844  ;  d.  Jan.  8,  1854. 

2.  Joseph  Chadwick,  b.  Nov.  21,  1846 ;  m. 

3.  Louisa  Bridge,  b.  Sept.  27,  1848. 

4.  Anne  March,  b.  Aug.  28,  1851. 

5.  Susan  Chadwick,  b.  July  10,  1853. 
0.  Alfred  Chadwick,  b.  Aug.  28,  1855. 

7.  Eleanor  Bridge,  b.  April  3,  1858,  M.D. 

8.  Austin  Bridge,  b.  Dec.  6,  1859  ;  d.  June  21,  1861. 

9.  Fanny  Rogers,  b.  Sept.  11,  1802. 

28.  2.  Henrietta,  b.  Aug.   10,   1781;    m.   Rev.   Samuel  Dana,  D.D.,  H.  C. 

1790,  of  Marblehead,  and  d.  April  1,  1863. 

1.  Henrietta  Bridge,  b.  Jan.  6,  1809  ;  m.  June  23,  1826,  Augustus  A. 

Hayes. 

2.  Samuel  Turner,   b.   May   28,   1810;    m.   Dec.  19,    1839,  Mary   E. 

Crockett. 

3.  Richard  Perkins,  b.  May  28,  1810;  m.  July  23,  1855,  Juliette  S. 

Starr. 

4.  Mary  Dane,  b.  May  15,  1812;  m.,  I.,   Sept.  21,  1835,  Asa  "Wood- 

bury ;  II.,  Rev.  Jacob  Abbott ;  d. 

5.  Anna  Harrington,  b.  Dec.  4,  1814.     Unmarried. 

6.  Susan  Coombs,  b.  July  16,  1817;  m.  Dec.  6,  1838,  Dr.  William  R., 

son  of  Amos  and  Sarah  Richard  Lawrence,  M.D.,  II.  C.  1845. 
See  Bond,  p.  841,  for  children. 


(«)  MATTHEW   BRIDGE.  21 

7.  Abigail  Fisher,  b.  Oct,  19,  1819;  m.  Judge  Ames. 

8.  Sarah  Elizabeth,  b.  Feb.  G,  1822. 

9.  Israel  Thorndike,  b.  April  11,  1825;  d.  Dec.  is.  l  $25. 
10.  Israel  Thomdike,  b.  June  6,  1827,  M.D.,  of  Portland. 

29.  3.  Nancy,  b.  Oct.  5,  1783 ;  d.  July  11,  1 

30.  4.  Henry,  b.  Aug.  29,  1785;  lost  at  sea,  1820. 

31.  5.  Richard,  b.  June  9,  1787;  lost  at  sea,  Oct.  15,  1805. 

32.  6.  Matthew  (9). 

33.  7.  Mary,  b.  Jan.  29,  1791 ;  d.  Feb.  21,  1834, 

34.  3.  Charles,  b.  Dec.  31,  1792;  drowned  near  Charleston,  May  10,  1818. 

(5)  William  Bridge  (12.  1),  b.  March  2,  1754;  m.  in  Cambridge, 
Dec.  11.  1783,  Betty,  dau.  of  William  and  Mary  (Reed)  Bowman, 
who  was  b.  Jan.  11,  1761,  and  d.  in  Waltham,  March  1,  1847. 

William  served  almost  at  the  beginning  of  the  Revolutionary  War. 
He  d.  Sept.  15,  1818. 

35.  1.  Polly,  b.  Jan.  3,  1785;  d.  Sept.  20,  1854. 

36.  2.  Priscilla,  b.  Nov.  9,  1789;  d.  Nov.  19,  1878. 

37.  3.  Betsey,  b.  April  11.  1792-;  d.  Dec.  31,  1811. 

38.  !.  Emma,  b.  Dec.  2,  1794;  d.  Jan.  23,  18G5, 

39.  5.  Abigail,  b.  Dec.  Hi.  1797;  d.   lug.  11.  1853.    All  died  unmarried. 

(6)  Nathaniel  (15.  4).  b.  Sept.  24,  17G0;  H.  C.  1782;  m.  Oct.  7. 
1782,  Anne  (Nancy),  dau.  of  Captain  Daniel  and  Agnes  (Smith) 
Waters  of  Maiden,  who  d.  April  24.  1842,  set.  82.  Nathaniel  d. 
Dec.  9,  1845.  He  was  a  teacher  of  considerable  note  in  Cambridge 
and  its  vicinity. 

Captain  Daniel  Waters  was  son  of  Adam  and  Rachel  (Draper) 
Waters,  and  was  b.  in  Charlestown,  June  20,  1731.  In  1776,  while 
in  command  of  the  Schooner  Lee,  of  eight  guns  and  fifty  men,  he 
captured  three  British  transports  of  larger  size,  and  helped  take  a 
fourth.  For  gallant  conduct  in  this  affair,  at  General  Washington's 
recommendation,  he  was  made,  in  March.  1777.  Captain  U.  S.  N., 
and  continued  to  render  distinguished  service  at  sea  to  Uw  American 
cause .     He  d .  March  2d,  1816 . 

40.  1.  John  (10). 

41.  2.  Daniel  Waters,  b.  Nov.,  1784;  left  home  very  young.      lie  made  two 

vovages  to  Liverpool.     Taken  sick,  he  was  cared  for  in  the  hospital 
there,  and  was  discharged  cured.     Diligent  inquiry  was  made 

him,  but  he  was  not  after  heard  from. 


22  SIXTH   GENERATION. 

42.  3.  Matthew,  b.  Xov.  25,  1785;  m.,  but  left  no  children.     He  d.  while 

on  shipboard  at  Calcutta. 

43.  4.  Mary,  b.  May  1,  1788;  m.  Jan.  22,  1809,  Reuben  Eaton  of  Dedham, 

who  was  b.  April  25,  1783,  and  d.  Oct.  5,  1872,  in  Cambridge. 
Mary  d.  March  6,  1870. 

1.  Sarah  Anne,  b.  Dec.  5,  1809 ;  d.  Jan.  13,  1817. 

2.  Mary,  b.  Aug.  30,  1S11 ;  m.  in  Waterville,  Me.,  Feb.  1,  1S33,  Peter 

G.  Smith. 

1.  Andrew  Gilman,  b.  July  19,  1836 ;  m.  Jan.  23,  1873,  Caroline 

W.  Draper. 

2.  Thomas  Eaton,  b.  April  4,  1S39 ;  d.  Feb.  3,  1841. 

3.  George  Folsom,  b.  June  19,  1841 ;  d.  Xov.  26,  1847. 

4.  Mary   Eaton,   b.   Sept.  4,  1S44;   m.  Xov.  16,  1S65,  George   E. 

Muzzey. 

5.  Hannah  Eliza,  b.  May  19, 1848  ;  m.  Oct.  3, 1871,  Raymond  Lynn. 

3.  Hannah  Shores,  b.  Aug.  9,  1813;  in.  April  1,  1S35,  in  Waterville. 

Me.,  Henry  H.  Eames. 

1.  Reuben,  b.  Sept.  2,  1836 ;  d.  Dec.  12,  1839. 

2.  Charles  H.,  b.  Oct.  16,  1839 ;  d.  April  4,  1842. 

3.  "Walter  A.,  b.  Sept.  30,  1841 ;  m.  in  Fitchburg,  Sarah  A.  Ames. 

4.  Thomas  H.,  b.  Aug.  30, 1843  ;  m.  in  Cambridge,  Caroline  J.  Howe. 

5.  Joseph  E.,  b.  Oct.  12,  1845 ;  m.  in  Cambridge,  Delia  A.  Barker. 

6.  Reuben  E.,  b.  Aug.  6,  1848 ;  m.  in  Cambridge,  W.  E.  Halliday. 

7.  Sarah  R.,  b.  July  12 ;  d.  Aug.  22,  1850. 

8.  Sarah  E.,  b.  Feb.  24,  1852. 

9.  Hannah  Etta,  b.  Oct.  14,  1856. 

10.  Mary  E.,  b.  Aug.  9,  1S58. 

11.  Caroline  F.,  b.  Jan.  15,  1861. 

4.  Thomas  X.  Bridge,  b.  July  22,  1815;  m.  Rebecca  F.  Wilson. 

5.  Sarah  Anne,  b.  May  28,  1817;  d.  April  24,  1818. 

44.  5.  Martin,  b.  March  10,  1790;  not  in.;  d.  young. 

45.  6.  Xancy,  b.  July  1,  1792;  m.,  I.,  1812,  David  Weeks  of  Watertown. 

He  d.  circa  1830,  in  Waltham.     Xancy  m.,  II.,  Frederick  Blood  of 
Castine,  and  d.  at  Sacarrappa. 

1.  Xathaniel  Bridge,  b.  Jan.  26,  1813 ;  m.,  I.,  Xov.  3,  1835,  Angeline 
Butts  Hosea  of  Boston,  b.  Aug.  16,  1816,  and  d.  May  10,  1837. 
Xathaniel  m.,  II.,  June  4,  1838,  Eliza  Hosea,  who  was  b.  May  10, 
1812,  and  d.  in  Brooklyn,  X.Y.,  Feb.  2,  1859. 

1.  Anne  Eliza,  b.  Feb.  28,  1840;  m.  March  12,  1863,  Clement  Stet- 

son.    He  d.,  and  Anne  m.,  II.,  George  A.  Story,  now  a  whole- 
sale di-uggist  in  San  Francisco. 

2.  Abby  Anne,  b.  Oct,  20,  1842 ;  d.  June  6,  U49. 


(a)   MATTHEW    BRIDGE.  23 

2.  Francis   Andrew  Jackson,  b.  Feb.    15,   1815;    in.  Sept.  13,  1837, 

Abigail  Tebbetts,  dau.  of  James  and  Climena  (Mosier)  Foye  of 
Augusta,  Maine.     Abigail  d.  April  8,  1883. 

1.  George  Francis,  b.  June  '■'>,  1838;    m.,  I.,  in  1863,  Rebecca  Alice 

Boynton.  who  d.  in  1864;  in..  II.,  Oct.  l(i,  1865,  Emily  Jane, 

dau.  of  Nelson  and  -lane  Pendleton  (Clarke)  Calderwood. 

1.  Maud  Lenore,  b.  June  1,  1866. 

2.  Frank,  b.  Sept.  30,  1868. 

3.  Clara  Gabrielle,  b.  Aug.  16,  LS73. 

2.  Alouzo  Gustavus,  b.  Nov.  30,  1839;  in.  Harriet  Iluldah  Gilpat- 

rick.  and  d.  May  26,  1869.     No  children. 

3.  Charles  Henry,  b.   Sept.  25,  1841 :  m.  1866,  Isabella  Morison, 

dau.  of  William  and  Martha  (Grant)  Emlay,  who  was  b.  in 
Guy  .-borough.  N.S.,  Feb.  27,  ls">!'. 

1.  Charles  Henry,  b.  Sept.  26,  1867. 
•_'.   Fanny  Bell,  b.  March  29,  1869. 

3.  David  Porter,  m.     Children. 

4.  Daniel  Pinckney  Pai'ker,  d.  young. 

5.  Daniel  Parker,  in.     Children. 

6.  John,  d.  young. 

7.  Lucy  Anne,  b.  in  Waltbam,  Nov.  14, 1824;  m.  June  9, 1845,  Henry 

Washburn  Barney  of  Gardner,  Maine,  and  d.  Aug.  16,  18<>.~>. 

1.  George  Henry,  b.  Jan.  28,  1846  :  d.  Sept.  29,  1850. 

2.  Nancy  Ella,  b.  Nov.  18,  1850.     Married. 

3.  George  Henry,  b.  Sept.  2.  1852. 

4.  Charlotte,  b.  Jan.  10,  ls.37;  m.  Sept.  13,  1875. 

5.  Fanny  Phillips,  b.  Jan.  29.  1859.     Married. 

S.  James  Smith,  d.  young. 

4ti.  7.  Nathaniel,  b.  July  28,  1794 ;  not  in. ;  died  at  sea. 

47.  8.  William  (11). 

48.  9.  Abigail  Bemis,  b.  July  25,  17§8;  m.  July  10,  1820.  George,  son  of 

George  and  Ruth  (Watson)  Stearns,  who  was  b.  Feb.  l'.  1793,  and 
d.  April  B,  1869.     Abigail  d.  Oct.  1,  1881.     See  Bond,  p.  574. 

1.  Mary,  b.  Jan.  14,  1823  :  d.  April  28,  1840. 

2.  George.  1).  April  1l).  1822;  m.  Xov.  22,  1842,  Rebecca  Russel;  and 

d.  June  6,  1878. 
■).  Sarah,  b.  Sept.  17.  1824  ;  d.  July  29,  1825. 

4.  William,  b.  Aug.  1.  1826;  in.  Oct.  •">,  1848,  Sarah  A.  Gibson. 

5.  Ellen,  b.  Dec.  12,  1829;  m.  Dec.  14.  1846,  David  Chambers. 

1.  Nettie  Lee,  b.  Oct.  1".  1847. 

2.  George,  b.  Jan.,  1849. 


24  SIXTH   GENERATION. 

6.  Abby  Anne,  b.  June  15,  1S3S;  m.  Nov.  22.  1862,  Marcus,  sou  of 
Stephen  and  Amanda  Morton. 

1.  Alice  Morton,  b.  Feb.  11,  1865. 

2.  Harry,  b.  Jan.  25,  1871 ;  d.  Aug.  17,  1871. 

3.  Chester,  b.  Aug.  21,  1872. 

49.  10.  Sarah  Flagg,  b.  July  80,  1800;  m.,  I.,  1823,  Leonard,  son  of  Richard 
and  Susan  (Waters)  Richardson,  who  d.  Jan.  20,  1830,   set. 
Sarah  m.,  II.,  April  24,  1835,  William,  son  of  Eben  and  Susan 
(Waters)  Richardson.     William  was  the  nephew  of  Leonard,  and 
grandson  of  Richard  Richardson.     Sarah  d.  April  4,  1881. 

1.  Martha  Anne,  b.  Feb.  17,  1824;  m.  April  21,  1814,  Moses  Wilson, 
son  of  Moses  and  Eliza  Bacon. 

1.  Leonard  Richardson,  b.  Feb.  12,  1845;    m.  Oct.  29,  1874,  Josie 

R.,  dau.  of  Henry  R.  Glover. 

1.  Lester  M. 

2.  Moses  Clinton,  b.  March  7,  1847 :  m.  Oct.  20,  1S70,  Ella  J.,  dau. 

of  Chester  W.  Kingsley. 

1.  Alice  M. 

2.  Moses  Clinton. 

3.  Sarah  Eliza,  b.  May  12,  1851;  m.  Dec.  21.  1876,  Dr.  J.  Merle. 

son  of  Samuel  and  Phcebe  Teele. 

4.  Mary  Alice,  b.  July  14,  1855;  d.  Sept.  3,  1857. 


2.  William  Henry,  b.  Jan.  8,  1S36 ;  m.  Xov.  26,  1866,  Anne  M. 
Webster. 

1.  Florence  Louise,  b.  Oct.  1,  1869. 

8.  Mary  Stearns,  b.  Sept.  17,  1841:  m.  (let.  26,  1871,  Lieut.  Francis 
Gould,  an  officer  in  the  Civil  War.  who  d.  from  the  effects  of  a 
wound  received  hi  the  service.     Mary  d.  April  2!!.  1874. 

50.  11.  James,  b.  Oct.  '.  -.  18    ">.  a  cooper:  went  to  Missouri :  m..  no  children. 


(rt)   MATTHEW    BRIDGE.  2"> 


SEV3NTH    GENERATION. 

(7)  Daniel  Bridge  of  Brooklyn  (25.  7).  b.  Aug.  1,  1807:  m.  April 
7.  1847,  Mary  S.  Lammas  of  Salem.  Daniel  d.  Saturday  at  mid- 
night. Dec.  22,  1883. 

51.  1.  John  Samuel,  b.  Aug.  1  i.  1848;  d.  Dec.  1:'..  1848. 
2.  Marie  Ellen,  b.  Jan.  23,  1  - 

53.  3.  Harriet  Elizabeth,  b.  Jan.  23,  1 

54.  4.  Daniel  Abbot,  b.  Aug. 

55.  5.  Anne  0.,  b.  April  14.  1858. 

(8)  John  Andrew  Bridge  (26.  8).  b.  Aug.  22.  1800  :  m.  Sept.  1. 
1832.  Susanna  Martha  Wyatt,  who  was  born  in  Putney.  County  of 
Surrey,  England.  Aug.  13.  1814,  and  d.  July  30,  1834.  John  d.  in 
1857.* 

5G.  1.  Mary  Wyatt  Susanna  Martha,  b.  July  20,  1833;  d. 

(9)  Matthew  Bridge  (32.  0).  b.  Feb.  18,  17-:) ;  m.  April  28,  1816. 
Mary.  dan.  of  Isaac  and  Sarah  (Parkhurst)  Flagg,  and  d.  in  Albany. 

pt.  28,  1858.  Mary  was  b.  in  Weston,  Sept.  22.  1788,  and  d.  in 
Brooklyn.  (Jet.  1.  1-75.  See  Bond,  p.  224.  who  gives  only  eight 
children  to  Isaac.     Mary  was  the  ninth  child. 

57.  1.  Eleanor  Iugersoll,  b.  in  Beverly.  April  20.  1817;  m.  in  Dover,  X.H.. 
May  5,  1841,  3  seph  MeXeen.  son  of  Josiah  and  Lydia  (Ober) 
Lovett.     He  L817,  and  d.  April  13,  1867,  in  Albany. 

Lives  in  Brooklyn. 

1.  Son,  b.  and  d.  July  11.  1843. 

2.  Frank  Parkhurst,  b.  May  16,  It 

'  2.  Mary  Louisa,  b.  July  18,  1819;  in.  Any.  17,  1841,  William  Pickering'. 
son  of  Iehabod  and  Mary  (Leavitt)  Libby  of  Tuftonborough,  X.II. 
Lives  in  Brooklyn.     He  was  b.  May  8,  1-17. 

1.  Marie  Louise,  b.  Aug.  8,1842;    ni.  Dec.  2,  1863,  Charles  Taylor 

I    itlin. 

2.  William  Herbert,  b.  Aug.  !.  1845;  m.  Feb.  10,  1868,  Mary  Catha- 

rine, dan.  of  Perrin  and  Mary  Burdick.     Three  children. 
:'..  Marion  Libby,  b.  March  16,  1851. 

59.  3.  Joshua  Eisher  (12). 

60.  4.  Charles  Richard,  b.  Oct.  22,  1824;  d.  Sept.  19,  1-!-. 

61.  5.  Samuel  Ingersoll  (13). 

62.  0.  Matthew  Harrington,  b.  Dec.  13,  1828. 


26  SEVENTH   GENERATION. 

(10)  John  Bridge  (40.  1),  b.  April  24,  1783;  m.  in  1805,  Re- 
becca, dau.  of  Samuel  and  Rebecca  (Wilkinson)  Beal  of  Boston, 
who  was  b.  Aug.  18,  1787,  and  d.  in  Chelsea,  Feb.  25,  1865.  John 
d.  in  Concord,  March  4,  1870. 

63.  1.  Maria  Jones,  b.  March  27,  1806;  m.  March  22,  1S29,  Minor  Pratt,  who 
died  in  Concord,  March  29,  187S,  aet.  73. 

1.  Henry  Minot,  b.  Feb.  22 :  d.  Aug.  29,  1830. 

2.  Frederick  Grey,  b.  April  2,  1831 ;  in.  Jan.  16,  1853,  Sarah  Maria 

Emery. 

1.  Henry  Mnot. 

3.  John  Bridge,  b.  June  16,  1833 ;  m.  Anne  Brownson  Alcott. 

1.  Frederick  Alcott. 

2.  John  Sewell. 

4.  Caroline  Harden,  b.  Xov.  9,  1836 ;  d.  July  10,  1866. 

5.  Theodore  Parker,  b.  Aug.  2,  1842  ;  d.  March  20,  1859. 

til.  2.  Mary  Howard,  b.  Xov.  30,  1S07;  d.  Feb.  13,  1831,  in  Cambridge. 
65.  3.  Anne  Rebecca,  b.  Xov.   1,   1809 ;   m.   Xov.  10,  1831,  Alvin  Adams, 

Esq.,  of  Boston,  founder  of  the  Adams'  Express  Company,  who  was 

born  in  Andover,  Vt.,  June  16,  1804,  and  d.  in  Watertown,  Sept.  1. 

1S77.     He  was  son  of  Jonas  and  Phoebe  (Hoar)  Adams.     Anne  d. 

Jan.  10,  1882. 

1.  Anne  Maria,  b.  July  23,  1831 ;  d.  Sept.  29,  1851. 

2.  Alvin,  b.  April  15,  1834 ;  d.  May  5,  1863. 

3.  Waldo,  b.  May  23,  1836;  m.  June  2,  1857,  Isabella  Hortense,  dau. 

of  Dr.  Walter  and  Annis  (Crawford)  Burnham  of  Barre,  Vt., 
afterwards  of  Lowell,  who  was  b.  March  25,  1S39. 

4.  Willis,  b.  Feb.  23,  1838;  d.  April  11,  1838. 

5.  Edward  Livingston,  b.  April  5,  1839 ;  m.  Feb.  9,  1870,  Emily,  dau. 

of  John  Hicks  and  Caroline  (Carpenter)  Macy  of  Xew  York, 
who  was  b.  Oct.  19,  1849. 

1.  Alvin,  b.  Xov.  30,  1870. 

2.  Edward  Livingston,  b.  Xov.  17,  1873. 

3.  Howard  Macy,  b.  March  4,  1876. 

6.  Ellen  Waters,  b.  Oct.  11,  1841 ;  d.  Dec.  28,  1844. 

7.  Helen  Frances,  b.  Oct.  IS,  1845 ;  m.  Xov.  22,  I860,  William  Brown 

Dinsmoor,  jr.,  of  Xew  York. 

1.  Helen  Gray,  b.  Jan.  30,  1868. 

2.  Augusta  Manners,  b.  Jan.  16  ;  d.  June,  1869. 

3.  William  Brown,  b.  Xov.  1,  1S70. 

4.  Madeline  Ingraham,  b.  Sept.  25,  1874. 

5.  Robert  Malcolm,  b.  Xov.  25,  1S77;  d.  Aug.  8,  1878. 


(a)  MATTHEW   BRIDGE.  27 

8.  Josephine,  b.  Feb.  14,  1848;  d.  May  3,  L850. 

9.  Clara  Belle,  b.  March  4,1853;  m.  Sept  27,   1875,  Edward  Perry 

Kennard;  d.  June  26,  1876. 
1.  Waldo  Perry,  b.  June  6,  1876. 

66.  4.  Lydia  Jackson,  b.  Oct.   11,  1811;  in.  June  10,   1841,  Captain  John 

Williams  of  Chelsea. 

1.  Edmund  Bradlee.  b.  Aug.  19,  1842;  d.  April  29,  1849. 

2.  Harrison  Bridge,  b.  Aug.  1,  1844. 

3.  Harriet  Hall.  b.  July  22,  1851;  m.  Oct.  28,  1871,  Edmund  Peter- 

son of  Rahway,  X.J. 

67.  •">.  Harriet,  b.  Aug.  2.  1S16 ;  m.  Aug.  21,   1840.  Samuel,  son  of  Samuel 

and  Sophia  (King)  Hall,  and  d.  March  20,  1851.     Samuel  was  b. 
Feb.  18,  1815. 
1.  Frank  Koekwood.  b.  March  15,  1851. 

68.  6.  Henry  May.  b.  Jan.  20.  1823;  d.  March  2,  1829. 

(11)  William  Bridge  (-44.  5),  b.  July  16,  1796;  m.,  I..  Juno  8, 
1819.  Nancy,  dau.  of  Hezekiah  and  Nancy  (Horn)  Hudson,  who  d. 
Oct.  7.  1843  :  m.,  II..  Rebecca,  dau.  of  John  and  Rebecca  (Tollan) 
MacDonald  of  Sharon.     He  d.  Jan.  10.  1852. 

H9.  1.  William  Hezekiah,  b.  Dec.  4.  1820;  m.  Eliza  Anne.  dau.  of  George 
and  Elizabeth  (Horn)  Dodge:  and  d.  June  9,  1878.     X"  children. 

70.  2.  Theodore  Augustus  (14). 

71.  3.  Matthew,  b.  and  d.  March  22.  1825. 

72.  4.  Ann-  Jane,  b.  Feb.  4.  L*27:  m..  I..  Jan.  28,  1*47,  John,  son  of  Ben- 

jamin Gault;  II.,  William  Yaughan.  who  d.  March  21.  1-  !7. 

1.  Lydia  Anne,  b.  1847;  m.  Stephen  Harris.    Two  children,  both  dead. 

2.  William. 

3.  Eliza. 

4.  Mary. 

7:;.  5.  Maria  Louisa,  b.  Feb.  16,  1829;  m.  May  26,  1851,  George  Washing- 
ton, son  of  Horace  and  Maria  Mann ;  and  d.  May  29,  1872. 

1.  Mary  Ellen,  b.  May  2".  1853. 
74.  6.  Matthew  (15). 
7-.  7.  diaries  Carroll  (16). 

76.  8.  Mary   Harriet,   b.   Feb.    6,    1836:    m.    Sept.    24,    1857,    Wa>hington 
McDonald. 

1.  Bertha,  b.  July  31,  1858  :  d.  July  3,  1874. 

2.  Henry,  b.  April  15,  1861 ;  d.  Jan.  3,  1874. 

3.  Walter  Scott,  b.  July  17.  1 


28  EIGHTH   GENERATION. 

77.  9.  Thomas  Hudson,  b.  March  2,  1838. 

78. 10.  James,  b.  Oct.  14,  1839 ;  d.  young. 

79. 11.  George  Henry  (17). 

EIGHTH    GENERATION. 

(12)  Joshua  Fisher  Bridge  (59.  3),  b.  in  Beverly,  Nov.  28,  1822  ; 
hi.  Sept.  3,   1852,  Augusta,  dau.  of  Benjamin  and  Eliza  (Ross 
Edmonds,  and  d.  Dec.  24.  1871.     Augusta  was   b.  Nov.   25,   1826, 
and  d.  May  12,  1877. 

SO.  1.  Charles  Edmonds  (IS). 

81.  2.  Evelyn  Augusta,  b.  Aug.  30,  1856;  m.  June  14.  1877.  A.  H.  King. 

1.  Grenville  Le  Roy,  b.  June  8,  1878. 

2.  Lorraine  Bridge,  b.  May  3,  18S0. 

3.  Russell  Edmonds,  b.  Nov.  23,  1881. 

(13)  Samuel  Ingersoll  Bridge  (58.  5),  b.  in  Dover,  N.H.,  July 
17,  1827  ;  m.  Oct.  4,  1853,  Martha  Ada  Noyes,  dau.  of  Dr.  Noyes 
of  Milwaukee,  and  d.  Feb.  19,  1876,  in  Florida.  Martha  was  b. 
Aug.  17,  1834. 

82.  1.  Matthew,  b.  March  5,  1868. 

(14)  Theodore  Augustus  Bridge  (70.  2),  b.  in  Boston.  Aug.  26, 
1823  ;  in..  I.,  Jan.  5,  1851,  Eliza,  dau.  of  "William  and  Hannah  M. 
(Langley)  Elliot  of  Pepperell.  He  d.  Dec.  25,  1862,  and  Eliza  m.. 
II.,  Solomon  Lewis  of  South  Boston. 

83.  1.  Edward  Elliot  (18). 

84.  2.  Hannah  Eliza,  b.  April  4.  1858. 

(15)  Matthew  Bridge  (74.  6),  b.  in  Boston.  Sept.  25.  1830;  m. 
Sept.  22.  1853.  Agnes,  dau.  of  Arthur  and  Elizabeth  (Martin)  Kent 
of  Edinburgh.  Scotland,  who  was  b.  Jan.  30,  1831. 

85.  1.  Matthew,  b.  Sept.  3,  1854;  d.  July  17,  1S59. 

86.  2.  Henry  Stuart,  b.  Feb.  3,  1S60. 

87.  3.  William  Hunter,  b.  Jan.  22,  1S62. 

88.  4.  Frederick  Winthrop,  b.  Jan.  18,  1865. 

89.  5.  Arthur  Franklin,  b.  June  18,  1867. 


(rt)   MATTHEW    BRIDGE.  29 

(16)  Charles  Carrol  Bridge  (75.  7).  b.  in  Bostou,  Oct.  9,  1832: 
m.  Jan.  5,  1859,  in  Wakefield,  Meribah  Georgiana,  dan.  of  Israel 
and  Meribah  P.  (Garland)  Gray.  Israel  was  b.  in  Andover,  N.H.  : 
Meribah  in  Ossipee,  N.H. 

90.  1.  Dora,  b.  March  27,  1861;  m.  March  !».  1882,  Amos,  sou  of  William 

R.  ami  Pamelia  (Gerry)  Nichols  of  Reading. 

1.  Lewis  Irvine,  b.  Nov.  16,  I 

91.  2.  Rosa,  b.  -Ian.  25,  1864. 

92.  3.  Theodore,  b.  Feb.  20,  1866 ;  d.  Dee.  21,  1867. 

93.  1.  Adaline,  b.  Feb.  29,  186S. 

94.  5.  Charles,  b.  Dec.  28,  1869. 

95.  6.  Anne,  b.  Sept,  26,  1871. 

96.  7.  Welcome,  b.  July  28,  is;;] :  d.  Dec.  6,  1871. 

(17)  George  Henry  Bridge  (79.  11),  b.  Dec.  16,  1845;  m.  Dec. 
16,  1868,  Ellen  Faxon,  dan.  of  William  and  Harriet  (Faxon) 
Whitney. 

!'7.  1.  Alice  R.,  b.  Feb.  6,  1S70. 

98.  2.  George  Henry,  b.  July  5,  1873. 


NINTH    GENERATION. 

(18)  Charles  Edmonds  Bridge  (80.  1)  of  Brooklyn,  b.  April  29. 
1853  ;  m.  Jan.  8,  1873,  Margaret,  dan.  of  Chauncy  and  Sarah 
(Mackey)  St.  John. 

99.  1.  Frederick  Clarence,  b.  May  10,  1874. 

(19)  Edward  Elliot  Bridge  (S3.  1),  b.  July  12,  1853;  m.  in  May. 
!^7:».  Ella.  dan.  of  Ebenezer  Philbrick  and  Azubah  (Hannaford; 
Carter,  who  was  b.  in  Canterbury.  N.H.,  July  31.  1853. 

100.  1.  Eben  Theodore,  b.  July  20.  Is-:;. 


30  FOURTH   AND   FIFTH   GENERATIONS. 

FOURTH    GENERATION. 

(b)    The  Family  of  Joseph  Bridge. 

Joseph  Bridge,  the  second  son  of  Matthew  Bridge,  jr.,  was  b. 
Jul}'  8,  1698  ;  m.  Nov.  18.  1722.  Abigail,  dan.  of  Thomas  and 
Sarah  (Stone)  Cutler  of  Lexington.  See  Bond,  Cutler.  25.  Abi- 
gail was  b.  in  170G,  and  d.  Dec.  13,  1777.  Joseph  d.  Nov.  21. 
1778. 

1.  1.  Thomas  (1). 

2.  2.  Abigail,  b.  Sept.  28,  1726;  m.  March  20,  1750.  Jacob  Fox. 

3.  '■).  Benjamin  (2). 

4.  4.  Joseph  (3). 

5.  ~>.  Jeremiah  (4). 

6.  0.  Melicent,  b.  April  16,  173S:  d.  July  24.  1753. 

FIFTH    GENERATION. 

(1)  Thomas  Bridge  (1.  1),  b.  July  8.  1723:  removed  to  Spencer 
in  1744:  was  in  Shutesbury  from  1771  to  1795:  m.  in  1745.  Mary 
Harrington  of  Brookfield.  There  is  a  Mary  Eaton  of  Sudbury  also 
sooken  of  as  his  wife.  Perhaps  his  second  wife.  His  children  were 
all  b.  in  Spencer. 

7.  1.  Thomas,    b.   Oct.   3.    174G ;    m.    April   21,    1768,    Elizabeth,    dau.  of 

Xathaniel  and  Mary  Jones  of  Spencer. 

8.  2.  George,  b.  Feb.  10,  174S.     May  have  settled  in  Stockbridge,  Madison 

County,  X.Y. 

9.  3.  Joseph  (5). 

10.  4.  Mellicent,  b.  Oct.  13.  1754;  d.  June  25,  1755. 

11.  5.  Amos,  b.  June  6,  1755. 

12.  6.  Mary.  b.  April  10,  1757;  d.  July  16.  1765. 

13.  7.  Melicent,  b.  May  14,  1761. 

14.  8.  Jesse,  b.  May  13,  1763. 
1.7.  0.  Esther,  b.  Xov.  4,  1764. 

(2)  Benjamin  Bridge  (3.  3).  b.  Nov.  15,  1728  :  m.  Anne  Haskell. 
1G.  1.  Benjamin,  d.  May  23,  1758. 


(7>)    JOSEPH   BIIIDGE.  31 

(3)  Joseph  Bridge  (4.  4).  b.  May  9,  1731;  m.  May  8,  1757, 
Elliot,  dan.  of  William  and  Sarah  (Poulter)  Reed,  and  d.  Sept.  11, 
1775.  Elliot  was  b.  April  28,1737.  See  Hudson's  History  of  Lex- 
ington for  an  account  of  the  Reed  family,  bo  closely  connected  by 

marriage  with  the  families  of  Joseph  and  John  Bridge. 

17.  1.  Jonathan  (6). 

18.  2.  Elliot,  b.  May  3.  1761  :   d.  young. 

10.  3.  Elliot,  b.  April  :."->.  1763;  m.   Feb.  7.  1780,  David   Blanchard,  jr..  of 
urn. 

20.  4.  Isaac,  b.  in  1705;  d.  in  1768. 

21.  5.  Joseph,  b.  Feb.  27,  17''>7:  d.  Sept.  3.  177-j. 

22.  6.  Isaac,  b.  Dec.  15,  1768;  d.  Feb.  1.  1769. 

23.  7.  Sarah,  bap.  Aug.  8,  1773:  m.  Jesse  Blanchard  of  Marblehead,  In-other 

of  David  Blanchard.  jr. 

(4)  Jeremiah  Bridge  (5.  5),  b.  Dec.  28,  1734.  IK-  was  a  soldier 
at  Lake  George  in  1758.     He  m.  Sarah. 

•24.  1.  John,  b.  1780. 


SIXTH    GENERATION. 

(5)  Joseph  Bridge  (9.  3),  b.  June  18,  1752  :  m..  I..  Sarah  Crosset 
of  New  Salem,  who  d.  circa  1822  ;  m..  IE.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Torrey  of 
Shutesbury.  There  were  no  children  from  the  second  marriage. 
Joseph  was  a  soldier  of  the  Revolution.  He  d.  in  Northfield  in 
1831. 

25.  1.  Nathan  (7). 

26,  2.  Joseph  (S). 

2~.  3.  Patience,  b.  in  1787;  m.  July  2.  1806,  Abner  Jennings,  who  d.  Oct., 
1827.     Patience  d.  May  In  1839. 

28.    1.  Isaac  Crosset  (f>). 

20.  5.  Mary,  twin  of  Isaac,  b.  Oct.  27.  1789;  in.  Eel..  18,  1819,  David  Clark. 
Mary  d.  on  the  same  day  with  her  mother,  circa  is_'2.  and  they 
were  buried  side  by  side  at  Northfield. 

30.  6.  Abigail,  b.  :  m.  Jan.  6,  I-'-.  Sa    luel  Collar  of  Warwick. 

1.  Hannah,  b,  Aug.  14.  1809;  d.  unmarried. 

2.  William,  b.  Sept.  19, 1811;  .1.  Sept.  21,  1813. 

3.  Charles  William,  b.  Feb.  25,  1816.     Settled  in  Boston. 


32  SIXTH   GENERATION. 

(6)  Jonathan  Bridge  (17.  1),  b.  Sept.  20,  1758:  m.,  I.,  Feb.  12, 
1781,  Phoebe,  dau.  of  William  and  Mary  (Reed)  Bowman  of  Cam- 
bridge, who  was  bap.  Nov.  19,  1757;  Jonathan  in.,  II.,  Mrs.  Phoebe 
(Phillips)  Wait  of  Roxbuiy,  who  was  b.  in  1774.  and  d.  Feb.  18, 
1817.     Jonathan  d.  Feb.  16,  1850. 

He  was  one  of  the  detachment  of  Captain  Parker's  Company, 
which  marched  to  Cambridge  on  Jmie  17,  1775. 

31.  1.  Joseph,  b.  April  9,  1783;  d.  17>7. 

32.  2.  Xancy,  b.  Sept.  12,  17S5;  d.  unmarried  in  1811. 

33.  3.  Phoebe,  b.  Nov.  7,  17S9 ;  m.  Thomas  Sargent  of  Maiden,  who  was  b. 

Oct.  20,  1793,  and  d.  May  20,  1881.     Phcebe  d.  Oct.  2,  1872. 

1.  Louisa  Jane,  b.  Jan.  21,  1823;  m.  Sept.  7,  1857,  George  Faulkner 

of  Maiden. 

1.  Jennie  Louise,  b.  Sept.  12,  1861. 

2.  George  Sargent,  b.  Nov.  18,  1865 ;  d.  Nov.  25,  1871. 

2.  Ellen  Maria,  b.  May  20,  1825;  m.  Benjamin  Faulkner,  who  was  b. 

Oct.  28,  1827.     Ellen,  d.  Mar.  3,  1877. 

3.  Xancy  Bridge,  b.  Jan.  27.  1828. 

4.  Mary  Elizabeth,  b.  April  13,  1835. 

34.  4.  Elliot,    b.   Nov.  20,  1793;    m.  July  23,   1820,   Bernard   Xewhall   of 

Maiden,  who  was  b.  Aug.  15,  1781,  and  d.  April  18,  1855.     Elliot 
d.  March  3,  185S. 

1.  Martin  Tufts,  b.  July  14,  1822. 

2.  Augusta,  b.  Jan.  31,  1S25. 

3.  Emeline,  b.  Dec.  22,  1S27. 

4.  Henry  Augustus,  b.  Feb.  23,  1S30;  m.  May  30, 1S66,  Jennie  Hop- 

kins of  Xewcastle,  Me.,  who  was  b.  Aug.  28,  1836,  and  d.  in 
March,  1867. 

5.  Webster,  b.  April  11,  1833;  d.  Feb.  6,  1834. 

6.  Bridge  Blanchard,  b.  Oct,  23,  1835 ;  d.  Aug.  18,  1836. 

35.  5.  Jonathan  (10). 


36.  6.  Sophia,  b.  March  23,  1S07;  d.  Dec.  15,  1863. 

37.  7.  Isaac,  b.  April  23,  1809  ;  d.  March  28,  1837. 

38.  8.  Herirnan  (11). 

39.  9.  Sarah,  b.  Feb.  22,  1814;  d.  July  5,  I860.     Xot  married. 
40. 10.  Mary  Anne,  b.  Feb.  9,  1817. 


(6)   JOSEPH  BRIDGE.  33 


SEVENTH    GENERATION. 

(7)  Nathan  Bridge  (25.  1),  b.  in  New  Salem,  Oct.  30,  1778;  m., 
I.,  in  1802,  Lurana  Hinsdale,  who  was  b.  in  Greenfield,  March  4, 
1780,  and  d.  Jan.  2.  1844  ;  II.,  Nov.  18,  1844,  Laura  Wood.  Nathan 
d.  in  Monson,  July  29,  1853. 

41.  1.  Sally,  b.  Jan.  17,  1S03;  m.  Oct.  4,  1826,  Pardon  Perry,  who  was  b. 
Nov.  2,  1802,  and  d.  Aug.  6,  1870. 

1.  Nathan  Bridge,  b.  Sept.  24,  1829;  m.  in  1854,  Isabella  Ross. 

1.  Minnie,  b.  July,  1857. 

2.  Ada,  b.  April  1,  I860. 

3.  Ellen,  b.  1864. 

4.  George  M.,  b.  1871. 

2.  Jane  S.,  b.  May  12,  1831 ;  m.,  I.,  in  1S53.     Her  husband  d.  during 

the  first  year  of  their  marriage,  and  she  m.,  II.,  in  1874,  Alex- 
ander Spence. 

3.  Ira,  b.  Feb.  19,  1833;  m.  1861,  Sally  Keating. 

1.  Ira. 

2.  George. 

3.  Ella. 

4.  Sally. 

4.  Elvira,  b.  Dec.  6,  1834;  m.  1855,  William  T.  Barr,  who  d.  in  1866. 
1.  William  E.,  b.  April  26,  1861. 

5.  Emily,  b.  Nov.  11,  1836 ;  m.  in  1864,  Andrew  Kennedy. 

1.  William. 

2.  Charles  P. 

3.  Robert  I. 

4.  Eva  F. 

6.  Henry  L.,  b.  Sept.  24.  1838. 

7.  Hannah  C,  b.  Aug.  21,  1840. 

8.  Chester  E.,  b.  Nov.  22,  1842 ;  m.  1864,  Stella  Morse. 
1.  Frank,  b.  April,  1S65. 

42.  2.  Lurana,  b.  Oct.  30,  1804;  m.  March  27,  1823,  George  Fox. 

1.  Henry  F.,  b.  1823. 

2.  Alonzo,  b.  1827. 

3.  Caroline,  b.  1831. 

4.  Austin  E. 

5.  Georq;e  G..  b.  1837. 


34  SEVENTH   GENERATION. 

43.  3.  Minerva,  b.  Oct.  22,  1806 ;  m.  1830,  Amos  Gaines. 

1.  Harriet  P.,  b.  Feb.,  1831. 

2.  George  S.,  b.  Jan.,  1833. 

3.  Henry,  b.  1835. 

4.  Sarah  E.,  b. ;  d.  in  18-44. 

44.  4.  Samuel   Hinsdale,  b.  Nov.  12,  1808;   m.,  I.,  Adaline   Phillips;   II., 

Adaline  Stearns. 

45.  5.  Elvira,  b.  Nov.  10,  1810 ;  m.  in  1S35,  Winslow  Bruce. 

1.  Susan,  b.  Jan.,  1837;  m.  in  1856,  W.  Mapes. 

2.  Henry,  d.  in  1843. 

3.  Pamelia,  b.  in  1841 ;  m.  Henry  Sayes. 

4.  Ruth,  b.  in  1844;  m.  in  1864,  Warren  Cushman. 

5.  Dexter,  b.  in  1846  ;  m.  Hephzibah  Porter. 

6.  Victor,  d.  in  1865. 

46.  6.  Pamelia,  b.  Jan.  11,  1813;  d.  Nov.  12,  1816. 

47.  7.  Henry  (12). 

48.  8.  Pamelia,  b.  May  21,  1817 ;  m.  three  times. 

49.  9.  Philena,  b.  Jan.  9,  1819 ;  m.  1849,  William  Hill. 

50. 10.  Sereno,  b.  Nov.  23,  1820  (13). 

51. 11.  Austin,  b.  April  14,  1823 ;  d.  Sept.  22,  1824. 

52.  12.  Emeline,  b.  Oct.  22,  1845;  d.  April  24,  1846. 

53. 13.  John  Wesley,  b.  July  20,  1847 ;  d.  March  17,  1850. 

54. 14.  Esther,  b.  Feb.  22,  1852  ;  d.  April  1,  1852. 

(8)  Joseph  Bridge  (26.  2),  b.  May  19,  1780,  a  soldier  in  the 
war  of  1812  ;  m.  Fanny,  dau.  of  Joseph  and  Judith  (Wells)  Latham, 
who  was  b.  in  1778,  and  d.  May  31,  1832.  He  removed  from  North- 
field  to  Northampton  circa  1833,  and  d.  Sept.  12,  1835. 

55.  1.  Wells  Field,  b.  June  18,  1807;  d.  April  26,  1832. 

56.  2.  Caroline  Wells,  b.  Nov.  15,  1808;  d.  Feb.  5,  1881. 

57.  3.  Judith  Burnham,  b.  July  1,  1810 ;  d.  Jan.,  1S59,  in  Westfield. 

58.  4.  Lucy,  b.  Feb.  18,  1812;  m.  May  10,  1842,  Lyman  Johnson,  and  d. 

Feb.,  1880. 

59.  5.  Melicent  Conkey,  b.  May  18,  1S14  ;  d.  July,  1S83. 

60.  6.  Charlotte  Yures,  b.  May  10,  1816;  m.  in  Springfield,  June  12,  1S44, 

Amos  Osborne,  son  of  Isaac  Crosset  and  Susan  Shattuck  (Davis) 
Bridge.     She  d.  in  Westfield,  Oct.  24,  1861.     See  (16). 

61.  7.  Persis  Latham,  b.  Sept.  15,  1818 ;  m.,  I.,  John  Towle ;  II.,  Austin  H. 

Buxton  of  Springfield. 

62.  8.  Joseph  Alexander,  b.  Aug.  21,  1820 ;  m. 


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63.  9.  George  "Whitfield  (14). 

64. 10.  Thomas  Cobb,  b.  Xov.  6,  1824 ;  d.  May  18,  1825. 
65.  11.  Thomas  Cobb,  b.  June  5,  1826 ;  settled  in  Thompsonville,  Conn. ;  m. 
60. 12.  Rebecca  Cobb,  b.  June  3,  1S2S ;  m.  Jan.  5,  1848,  Henry  B.  Styles, 
who  d.  Jan.  14,  1857. 

(9)  Isaac  Crosset  Bridge  (27.3),  b.  in  Pelham,  Mass.,  Oct.  27, 
1789;  went  to  Ware;  m.  Sept.  28,  1811,  Susan  Shattuck,  dau.  of 
Aaron  and  Susannah  (Shattuck)  Davis  of  "Warwick,  who  was  b. 
March  19,  1790,  and  d.  July  27,  1847.     Isaac  d.  Aug.  31,  1842. 

67.  1.  Jonathan  Dans  (15). 

68.  2.  Amos  Osborne  (16). 

69.  3.  Benjamin  Ball  (17). 

70.  4.  Susan  Greenwood,  b.  April  18,  ISIS ;  m.  Dec,  1858,  Enoch  Spencer, 

and  d.  without  children,  March  25,  1882. 

71.  5.  John  Wesley  (18). 

72.  6.  Henry  Martin  (19). 

73.  7.  Joseph  Merrill  (20). 

74.  8.  Jesse  Filmore  (21). 

75.  9.  Elvira  Roxana,  b.  March  15,  1S29 ;  d.  June  1,  1848. 

76. 10.  Adaline  Minerva,  b.  Jan.  22,  1832 ;  m.  May,  1855,  Alonzo  Upham, 

of  East  Brookfield ;  d.  April  15,  1856. 

77. 11.  Harriet  Emeline,  b.  Aug.  17,  1833 ;  d.  Oct.  4,  1834. 

78.  12.  Wilber  Watson,  b.  Oct.  4,  1835;  d.  March  17,  1836. 

(10)  Jonathan  Bridge  (35.5),  b.  Feb.  1,  1798;  m.  Hannah,  dau. 
of  James  and  Hannah  (Watts)  Smith  of  Charlestown.  He  d.  May 
14,  1837. 

79.  1.  Paulina  Smith,  b.  Oct,  5,  182S;  m.  Xov.  20,  1851,  Augustus  L.  Dole 

of  Xewburyport. 

1.  Augustus  L.,  b.  Sept.  9,  1858. 

2.  Helen  C,  b.  Feb.  2,  1864. 

80.  2.  Francis  H.  (22). 

(11)  Heriman  Bridge,  b.  Sept.  10,  1811  ;  m.  Nancy  Church  Bailey 
of  Dorchester. 

81.  1.  Emily,  b.  Julv  24,  1838;  d.  Aug.  6,  1849. 


36  EIGHTH   GENERATION. 

EIGHTH    GENERATION. 

(12)  Henry  Bridge  (47.  7),  b.  Jan.  1,  1815  ;  m.  in  1839,  Corinthia 
Stearns. 

32.  1.  Perley. 

83.  2.  Loren. 

84.  4.  Cornelia,  b.  ;  m.  in  1869,  William  Haliday. 

(13)  Sereno  Bridge  (50. 10),  b.  Nov.  23,  1820  ;  in.  in  1846,  Alice 
Winchester. 

35.  1.  Annette,  b. ;  d. 
86.  2.  Wallace,  b.  in  1856. 
37.  3.  Arthur,  b.  in  1859. 

(14)  George  Whitfield  Bridge  (63.9),  b.  Aug.  16,  1822,  lives  in 
Eockville,  Conn.  ;  m.  in  Enfield,  Conn.,  Nov.  8,  1843,  Minerva 
Griswold. 

88.  1.  George  A.,  b.  in  Newington,  Conn.,  Sept.  12,  1844 ;  m.  in  Providence, 

June  20,  1876,  Sarah  H.  Clarke. 

89.  2.  Winfield  Scott,  b.  July  2,  1848;  d.  Jan.  8,  1850. 

90.  3.  Wilbur  Winfield  (23). 

(15)  Eev.  Jonathan  Davis  Bridge,  b.  in  Northfield,  Sept.  10, 
1812  ;  in.  Aug.  30,  1832,  Abigail  Learnard,  dau.  of  Liberty  and 
Hannah  (Holbrook)  Bullard.     Abigail  d.  Jan.  7,  1811. 

He  was  an  estimable  clergyman  in  the  Methodist  Church. 

91.  1.  Melville  Wells  (24). 

92.  2.  Watson  Wilberforce  (25). 

93.  3.  William  Dawson  (26). 

94.  4.  Saurin  Massilon,  b.  in  Saugus,  Nov.  3,  1841  ;  d.  July  13,  1842. 

(16)  Amos  Osborne  Bridge  (68.2),  b.  in  Springfield,  Sept.  23, 
1814  ;  m.  June  12,  1844,  Charlotte  Yures,  dau.  of  Joseph  and  Fanny 
(Latham)  Bridge  (60.  6),  who  was  b.  May  16,  1816,  and  d.  Oct.  24, 
1861  ;  Amos  d.  in  Warwick,  March  26,  1872. 

95.  1.  Ellen  Charlotte,  b.  April  8,  1845;  m.  Jan.  1,  1871 ;  George  Washing- 

ton, son  of  George  Washington  and  Matilda  (Owen)  Smith,  who 
was  b.  April  17,  1844. 

1.  Nettie  Bridge,  b.  Nov.  20,  1873. 

2.  Alice  Louisa,  b.  Nov.  26,  1877. 

3.  Ada  Hyde,  b.  Dec.  22,  1878;  d.  May  28,  1879. 

4.  Minnie  Luella,  b.  Sept.  3,  1S80 ;  d.  Oct.  13,  1880. 


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96.  2.  Luther  Amos,  b.  Feb.  20.  1848,  lives  in  Hampden. 

97.  3.  Louisa  Minerva,  b.  Jan.  14,  1851;  d.  March  22,  1882. 

(17)  Benjamin  Ball  Bridge  (69.3),  b.  May  26,  1816;  m.  July  5, 
1846,  Anna  Maria,  dan.  of  Daniel  and  Esther  Atwell  (Stockwell) 
King  of  Worcester,  who  was  b.  May  3,  1822. 

98.  1.  Anna  Maria,  b.  Oct.  24,  1S47;  d.  Feb.  28,  1853. 

99.  2.  Benjamin  Herbert,  b.  May  28,  1854;  d.  July  28,  1854. 
Inn.  3.  William  Carroll,  b.  Nov.  8,  1857  :  d.  Jau.  18,  1858. 

(18)  John  Wesley  Bridge,  Rev.  (71.5),  b.  Aug.  19,  1820;  m. 
Oct.  3.  1843,  Orris  Elizabeth,  dan.  of  Gray  ton  aud  Elizabeth  (Ben- 
net)  Fuller  of  AVilbraham.  who  was  b.  Nov.  26,  1820.  A  clergyman 
of  the  Methodist  Church.     He  d.  Nov.  10,  1883. 

101.  1.  Olin  Burritt  (27). 

102.  2.  Gifford  Munroe,  b.  Oct.  6.  1847  :  m.,  L.  Feb.  14.  1869,  Eunice  Au- 

gusta, dau.  of  Arnold  and  Eunice  Taft.  b.  Xov.,  1847:  d.  Jan., 
ls72.  II.,  March  31.  1883,  Esther  Adeline,  dau.  of  Robert  and 
PlKebe  Anne  (Wilbur)  Burdick.     She  was  b.  Xov.  26,  1865. 

103.  3.  Joseph  Henry  (28). 

104.  4.  Violetta   Elizabeth,   b.  Xov.   28,   1851;   m.  July  20,  1872,   George 

Riley,  son  of  James  L.  and  Ruby  E.  Wilcox. 

1.  Helen  Eva.  b.  June  10,  1873. 

2.  George,  b.  Aug.  12,  1875. 

3.  John  Wesley,  b.  March  31,  1>77. 

4.  Alice  Ruby.  b.  April  29,  1879. 

5.  Gifford  Daniel,  b.  May  22,  1882. 

105.  5.  John  Wesley  (29). 

106.  6.  Charles  Watson  (30). 

107.  7.  Mary  Alice,  b.  June  15,  1858. 

108.  8.  Harriet  Adelaide,  b.  Oct.  7,  1859 ;  m.  Jan.  30,  1S78,  John,  son  of 

Thomas  and  Mary  (Robertson)  Gourley,  who  was  born  March  4, 
1855. 

1.  Mary  Eva.  b.  Jan.  9,  1879. 

109.  9.  Susan  Eva,  b.  Jan.  16,  1862;  d.  July  6,  1864. 

(19)  Henry  Martin  Bridge  (72.6).  b.  in  Xorthfield.  Aug.  23. 
1823  :  ordained  in  Methodist  Church,  1845.  In  1854.  installed  over 
the  Congregational  Church  in  Warwick  ;  d.  Pastor  of  the  church  in 
Colebrook.  N.H.,  Dec.  23, 1861  :  m.  Feb.  15.  1846,  Elizabeth  Foster, 
dau.  of  Major  John  and  Alsa  (Spelman)  Cady  of  Stafford,  Conn., 
who  was  b.  Feb.  17,  1825. 


38  EIGHTH   GENERATION. 

110.  1.  Charles  Adams  (31). 

111.  2.  Mary  Annette,  b.  July  2,  1849 ;  m.  Nov.,  1871,  William  C,  son  of 

Asa  Hatch  of  Northumberland,  X.H.,  who  d.  June,  1875.     Two 
children  d.  young. 

112.  3.  Henry  Ward  Beecher,  b.  Oct.  28,  1851 ;   printer;  d.  Feb.  28,  1881. 

113.  4.  Jane  Elizabeth,  b.  Sept,  9,  1854;  m.  Sept.,  1876,  Thomas  Vandyke. 

Three  children :  George,  Mary, . 

114.  5.  Jonathan  Davis,  b.  Aug.  21,  1859 ;  printer ;  m.  June  2,  1S7S,  Julia, 

dau.  of  George  Washington  Annis  of  Colebrook. 

(20)  Joseph  Merrill  Bridge  (73.  7),  b.  Oct.  11,  1835;  m.  Jan.  1, 
1851,  Adelaide  Clemence,  dau.  of  Lyman  and  Anne  Elizabeth  (Dyer) 
Johnson  of  Sturbridge,  who  was  b.  March  25,  1832. 

115.  1.  Emery  Lyman  of  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  b.  Sept,  26,  1852. 

116.  2.  Benjamin  Herbert,  b.  Sept.  20,  1858  ;  d.  April  25,  1873. 

(21)  Jesse  Film  ore  Bridge  (74.  8),  b.  June  21,  1827  ;  m.,  I.,  June 
6,  1849,  Almira  Adeline,  dau.  of  Edwin  and  Anne  Sophia  (Stocking) 
Smith,  who  d.  Aug.  28,  1857  ;  m.,  II..  July  11,  1858,  Ellen  Rebecca, 
dau.  of  Dea.  George  Washington  and  Sarah  Pierce  (Leonard)  Moore. 
He  served  two  years  in  the  late  war. 

117.  1.  Ella  Frances,  b.  March  18,  1S50;  d.  Aug.  6,  1851. 

118.  2.  Lilly  Fremont,  b.  May  26,  1856. 


119.  3.  Sarah  Washington,  b.  July  24,  1859 ;  m.  Dec.  25,  1883,  M.  A.  Stone. 

120.  4.  Susan  Lincoln,  b.  April  10,  186S. 

121.  5.  Jessie  Rebecca,  b.  Sept.  2,  1870. 

(22)  Francis  H.   Bridge  (80.  2),  b.   Sept.   17,  1831;  m.  Nov.  2, 
1854,  Mary  B.  Brown  of  Marblehead,  who  d.  Oct.  17,  1880. 

122.  1.  Robert  Calder,  b.  Oct,  23,  1857. 

123.  2.  Edward  Blanchard,  b.  March  24,  1863. 


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NINTH    GENERATION. 

(23)  Wilbur  Winfield  Bridge  (90.3),  b.  Feb.  8,  1852,  D.D.S., 
Phil.  ;  m.  June  14,  1876,  Eva  St.  Clair  Watson. 

124.  1.  Wilbur  Winiield,  b.  Oct.  3,  1S79. 

(24)  Melville  Wells  Bridge  (91.  1),  b.  in  Feeding  Hills  Parish, 
"West  Springfield,  April  26,  1834,  Treasurer  of  Hampden  County, 
Mass.  ;  m.  April  26,  1857.  Anna  Viola,  dau.  of  John  and  Roxana 
'Wheeler  of  Williainsville,  Vt..  who  was  b.  Nov.  11,  1838,  in  Chester- 
field, N.H. 

12.3.  1.  Francis  Melville,  b.  May  22,  1359 ;  d.  Sept.  2,  1860. 

126.  2.  Addie  Anna,  b.  and  d.  July  17,  1860. 

127.  3.  Ilattie  Wheeler,  b.  July  8,  1861  ;  d.  Dec.  30,  1862. 

128.  4.  Olive  Anne,  b.  Oct.  26,  1863. 

129.  5.  Lucius  Ladd,  b.  Dec.  8,  1S69. 

130.  6.  Lizzie  Wheeler,  b.  Nov.  20,  1873 ;  d.  July  24,  1882. 

(25)  Watson  Wilberforce  Bridge  (92.2),  b.  Sept.  27,  1836;  in 
business  in  New  Haven,  Conn.  ;  m.,  I.,  Jan.  1,  1861,  in  Southbor- 
ough,  Harriet  Anne,  dau.  of  Lowell  and  Harriet  Newell  (Williams) 
Brigham,  who  was  b.  Sept.  2,  1837  ;  d.  Sept.  23,  1874.  m.,  II.,  Nov. 
9,  1875.  Alia  Amelia,  dau.  of  Charles  M.  and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Cole) 
Randall,  who  was  b.  Feb.  6.  1852  ;  d.  in  Boston,  Nov.  28,  1880. 
Mr.  Bridge  served  through  the  whole  war  of  the  Rebellion,  in  the 
37th  and  54th  Regiments  of  Massachusetts  Volunteers  ;  was  captain 
in  the.  54th  Regiment. 

131.  1.  Mattie  Abigail,  b.  Dec.  16,  1861. 

132.  2.  Watson  Burbank,  b.  Sept.  11,  1S69 ;  d.  Feb.  19,  1873. 

133.  3.  Lowell  Brigham,  b.  July  4.  and  d.  Oct.  14,  1S74. 

(26)  Rev.  William  Dawson  Bridge  (93.  3),  b.  Feb.  23,  1840, 
A.B.,  Wes.  Univ.,  1861,  Teacher,  Clergyman  in  Meth.  Church,  Sec- 
retary in  the  Chautauqua  Work  ;  m.  Nov.  26,  1863,  Mary  Susan  San- 
ford,  dau.  of  Philip  and  Susan  (Bassett)  Holway,  who  was  b.  in 
Lowell,  June  30,  1841. 

134.  1.  Florence  Merlina,  b.  in  Rockport,  Oct.  1,  1869. 

(27)  Olin  Burritt  Bridge  (101. 1),  b.  Sept.  18,  1845  ;  m.,  I.,  June 
22.  1867,  Helen  Augusta,  dau.  of  Simeon  Groves  and  Mary  Augusta 
Hapworth.  who  was  b.  Oct.  27.  1847 ;  d.  Jan.  9,1871.     m.,  II.,  Sept. 


40  NINTH   GENERATION. 

18,    1873,  Adaliue  Amanda,  dan.  of  AYilliarn  and  Adaline   (Bond) 
Johnson,  b.  Aug.  3,  1854. 

135.  1.  Frances  Eva,  b.  March  17,  1869. 


136.  2.  Henry  Durham,  b.  Nov.  4,  1877. 

137.  3.  Gertrude  Alina,  b.  Nov.  8,  1879;  d.  Sept.  16,  1880. 

(28)  Joseph  Henry  Bridge  (103.  3),  b.  Dec.  30,  1849  ;  m.  Dec.  15, 
1878,  Caroline  Joanna,  dau.  of  William  and  Theresa  (Young)  Lehner 
b.  Feb.  12,  1862. 

138.  1.  Henry  Lehne,  b.  Sept.  5,  1879. 

139.  2.  George  Wesley,  b.  Nov.  26,  1881. 

(29)  John  Wesley  Bridge  (105.  5),  b.  June  26,  1854;  m.  May  17. 
1881,  Beatrice  Leola,  dau.  of  Benjamin  Franklin  and  Lauretta  Hart- 
well  (Huntley)  Gage,  who  was  b.  Jan.  13,  1856. 

140.  1.  Benjamin  Hartwell,  b.  April  26,  1882. 

141.  2.  Alice  Genevieve,  b.  Sept.  17,  18S3. 

(30)  Charles  Watson  Bridge  (106.  6),  b.  Nov.  15,  1856  ;  m.  Nov. 
21,  1877,  Georgia  Emma,  dau.  of  George  Harris  and  Mary  Emma 
(Daniels)  Churchill.     She  was  b.  Aug.  19,  1851. 

142.  1.  William  Dawson,  b.  Nov.  26,  1878. 

143.  2.  Ethel  May,  b.  Feb.  10,  1883. 

(31)  Charles  Adams  Bridge  (110.  1),  b.  Mar.  22,  1847,  in  Glouces- 
ter ;  served  1864-7  in  the  Fifth  Regiment  of  the  United  States  Artil- 
lery ;  m.  Oct.  25,  1876,  Mary,  dau.  of  Isaac  and  Caroline  Morenci 
of  Colebrook.     Printer,  living  in  Boston. 

144.  1.  Irving  Henry,  b.  April  4,  1878. 


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FOURTH    GENERATION, 
(c)  The  Family  of  John  Bridge. 

John  Bridge  -was  the  third  son  of  Matthew  Bridge,  jr.,  and  -was  b. 
Sept.  1.  1700.  He  was  ••  a  prominent  citizen  of  Lexington,  serving 
in  all  the  Offices  the  Town  had  to  give."  He  was  Selectman  in  1746 
and  in  1756. 

He  m..  I..  Jan.  4.  1730,  Anne  Herrick  of  Wenham.  who  d.  with 
her  child.  Dec.  7,  1730;  and  he  m.,  II.,  in  1732,  Sarah,  dan.  of 
Joseph  and  Mary  Tidd.  For  a  detailed  account  of  the  Tidd  family, 
see  Mr.  Hudson's  History  of  Lexington.  Sarah  was  b.  Now  19, 
1711.  and  d.  March  14.  1754. 

John  m.,  III.,  Mrs.  Mary  Porter  of  Woburn,  who  d.  without 
children.  Aug.  27,  1788.     John  d.  May  7.  1776. 

1.  1.  Mary.  b.  April  22,  1733;  m.  April  11,  1754.  Isaac,  son  of  Major  Ben- 

jamin and  Rebecca  (Stone)  Reed,  who  was  b.  July  30,  1727.  See 
Mr.  Hudson  for  the  Reeds. 

1.  Isaac  of  Littleton,  b.  May  18,  1755;  m.  Mary.  dau.  of  General 
Isaac  Gardner,  a  man  of  large  service  in  the  Revolution,  and 
highly  respected. 

1.  Isaac,  H.  C.  17S0. 

2.  2.  Sarah,  b.  Dec.  21,  1735;  m.  April  11,  1754,  Oliver,  son  of  "Esq." 

William  and  Sarah  (Poidter)  Reed.  Oliver  -was  b.  March  25,  1730. 
"William  and  Benjamin  Reed  were  brothers,  sons  of  William  and 
Abigail  (Kendal)  Reed.  William,  the  elder,  -was  sixth  son  of 
George  Reed,  who  -was  b.  in  England  in  1629. 

1.  Oliver,  b.  1755. 

2.  Sarah,  b.  in  1757. 

3.  Reuben,  b.  in  1759. 

4.  Mary,  b.  in  1763. 

3.  3.  John  (1). 

4.  4.  Josiah  (2). 

5.  5.  Ebenezer  (3). 


42  FIFTH   GENERATION. 

FIFTH    GENERATION. 

(1)  John  Bridge,  Esq.,  (3.  3),  was  b.  Dec.  28,  1737  ;  m.,  I.,  April 

14,  1761,  Hannah,  clau.  of  William  and  Sarah  (Poulter)  Reed,  who 

was  b.   Oct.  24,  1740,  and  d.  Oct.  26,  1782.     He  m.,  II.,  July  13, 

1786,  Mary  Moore,  who  d.  April  1,  1788,  set.  42.     He  d.  Dec.  6, 

1806. 

He  was  a  Major  in  the  Military  Service  in  the  Revolution,  and 

took  part  in  the  battles  at  Lexington  and  Bunker's  Hill.     At  Lex- 
ington, — 

"  John  Danforth  was  hit  just  in  Lexington  Street, 
John  Bridge  at  that  lane  where  you  cross  Beaver  Falls," 
****** 
"  I  took  Bridge  on  my  knee,  but  he  said,  '  Don't  mind  me  : 
Fill  yonr  horn  from  mine  —  let  me  lie  where  I  be. 
Our  Fathers,'  says  he,  '  that  their  Sons  might  be  free, 
Left  their  King  on  his  Throne  and  came  over  the  Sea ; 
And  that  man  is  a  knave  or  a  fool  who,  to  save 
His  life,  for  a  Minute  would  live  like  a  Slave.'  " 

He  was  a  trusted  soldier  and  a  wise  adviser  in  the  Committee  of 
Safety.  Afterwards,  he  did  good  service  in  civil  life,  was  Selectman, 
had  charge  of  the  schools,  and  was  in  special  favor  as  Justice  of  the 
Peace. 

6.  1.  John  (4). 

7.  2.  Elias,  b.  July  12,  1764 ;  d.  Sept.  10,  177S. 

8.  3.  Hannah,  b.  April  30,  1771 ;  m.,  I.,  Sept.  29,  1791,  Gen.  Joseph,  son  of 

Cornet  John  and  Beulah  (Merriam)  Chandler.  "  The  Cornet, 
though  he  held  a  commission  under  the  Royal  Governor  of  Cornet 
of  his  Majesty's  Blue  Troop,  was  not  false  to  his  native  colony. 
He  belonged  to  Captain  Parker's  Spartan  Band,"  and  did  other 
large  service  to  the  State  and  to  the  Town  in  the  war  and  after  the 
war. 
Joseph  was  b.  Sept.  2,  1768,  and  d.  March  26,  1807 ;  Hannah  in.,  II., 
Jan.  7,  1810,  Dr.  Thomas  Whitcomb,  who  d.  Oct.  8,  1813,  set.  48. 
Hannah  d.  March,  1811. 

1.  Hannah,  b.  June  26,  1794;  d.  Jan.  20,  1809. 

2.  Sarah,  b.  May  24,  1796;  d.  Feb.  10,  1S00. 

3.  Joseph,  b.  Feb.  26,  1801 ;  d.  Nov.  16,  1822. 

4.  John,  b.  Dec.  11,  1806;  d.  Nov.  16,  1807. 


5.  Elizabeth  Bridge,  b.  Jan.  13,  1814 ;  m.  Oct.  25,  1819,  Nathaniel 
Harris,  son  of  Nathaniel  Gerry  of  Salem,  who  d.  Jan.  5,  1869, 
set.  55.     Elizabeth  d.  March  8,  1883.     No  children. 


(e)    JOHN   BRIDGE.  43 


9.  4.  Mary.  b.  Jan.  14,  1776  :  d.  Sept.  4.  1778. 
10.  5.  Sarah,  b.  June  20,  17S0 ;  d.  Dec.  1,  1780. 


11.  6.  Mary,  b.  April  17.  1787 ;  d.  Nov.  6,  1820. 

(2)  Rev.  Josiah  Bridge  (4.4),  b.  Dec.  28,  1730,  H.  C.  17.38;  m. 
Jan.  30.  176G.  Martha,  dau.  of  Rev.  Aaron  and  Martha  (Allen) 
Smith  of  Marlborough.  Mr.  Smith  was  a  "faithful  Minister  and  a 
eood  man."    For  the  Allen  family,  see  Babson's  History  of  Gloucester. 

Josiah  was  ordained  at  East  Sudbury,  now  Wayland,  Nov.  4. 
1761,  and  d.  June  19,  1801.  Graduating  from  college  while  still 
eighteen  years  of  age,  and  called  to  the  charge  of  a  parish  before  he 
was  twenty-two.  "  he  soon  distinguished  himself."  "  Endowed  with 
a  strong  mind  and  a  sound  judgment  and  being  a  good  scholar  he 
possessed  eminent  talents  as  a  preacher."  "  Beside  a  good  personal 
appearance  he  had  a  pleasantness,  a  solemnity  and  dignity  in  his 
voice,  style,  and  address  which  seldom  concentre  in  any  man.*' 

••  Wherever  he  went  to  preach,  his  appearance  gave  pleasure;  he 
was  heard  with  avidity,  and  his  people  were  considered  happy,  and 
almost  envied,  in  having  such  a  minister.  He  presided  at  Councils 
with  meekness  and  dignity.  He  was  continually  in  request  at  ordi- 
nations and  other  public  occasions.  He  preached  an  Election  Ser- 
mon and  a  Convention  Sermon,  and  read  at  the  University  the 
Dudleian  Lecture.  All  these  honors  together  were  then  very  rarely 
conferred  on  one  Minister." 

"Among  his  brethren  he  was  greatly  beloved  and  esteemed.  To 
the  association  of  which  he  was  a  member,  he  was  an  unspeakable 
loss.  Ministers.  Churches,  and  Societies,  involved  in  trouble,  sought 
his  advice  and  influence  as  Peacemaker  and  Judge."  "He  was  en- 
joyed by  all  before  him  while  they  lived,  and  by  all  who  were  after 
him  while  he  lived."  "The  praise  of  Bridge."  says  McKeen.  four- 
teen vears  after  his  decease,  "a  goodly  man  and  faithful,  is  still  in 
all  the  Churches." 

He.  too.  as  were  most  of  his  profession  in  that  generation,  and  as 
have  been  very  many  of  his  name,  was  earnestly  interested  in  edu- 
cation. One  of  the  first  Academies  started  in  Massachusetts.  —  insti- 
tutions which  did  such  eminently  good  work  in  the  last  century.  — 
was  that  at  Framingham.  It  was  very  prosperous.  He  was  one  of  its 
original  Trustees,  and  continued  in  its  service  as  such  till  his  decease. 

12.  1.  Aaron  Smith,  b.  Dec.  27,  1760  ;  d.  Jan.  22,  1767. 

13.  2.  Martha,  b.  Sept.  5,  1768;  m.  Jan.  22.  1791.  John  Prentiss  of  Lan- 

caster, afterwards  of  Penn  Yann.  X.Y.  See  the  new  edition  of 
"The  Prentiss  Family."  Martha  d.  March  2,  1857,  leaving  nearly 
a  hundred  living  descendants. 


44  FIFTH   GENERATION. 

1.  Rebecca,  b.  Nov.  22,  1791;  m.  B.  F.  Welles;  eight  children;  d. 

March  3,  1873. 

2.  Harriet,  b.  July  24,  1793 ;  m.  William  Edwin  Welles ;  twelve  chil- 

dren; d.  March  12,  1882. 

3.  Peter  Bridge,  b.  Nov.  12,  1795;  d.  June  1,  1813. 

4.  John  Adams,  b.  May  7,  1798;  m.  Thankful  Hotchkiss;  ten  chil- 

dren ;  d.  May  8,  1878. 

5.  William,  b.  May  10,  1801 ;  m.  Fanny  Ledyard ;  eight  children ;  d. 
,    March  18,  1875. 

6.  Josiah,  b.  Dec.  10,  1804 ;  m.  Hannah  A.  Hotchkiss ;  three  children. 

7.  Martha  Bridge,  b.  June  8,  1807 ;  m.  Hervey  A.  Hotchkiss ;  two- 

children. 

8.  Mary  Anne  Wright,  b.  May  25,  1811 ;  d.  July  7, 1882. 

14.  3.  Aaron  Smith,  b.  Dec.  27,  1770;  d.  Dec,  1851. 

15.  4.  William,  b.  June  30,  1772 ;  d.  Nov.  24,  1772. 

16.  5.  William,  b.  Oct.  23,  1773  ;  m.  Eunice  Butter,  and  d.  in  Wayland, 

June  30,  1855.  He  was  a  merchant,  doing  business  in  London  for 
several  years.     No  children. 

17.  6.  Anna,  b.  March  15,  1776;  m.  Rev.  Luther  Wright,  H.  C.  1796;  d. 

March,  1862.     No  children. 

18.  7.  Sarah,  b.  June  15,  1780 ;  m.  Oct.  10,  1808,  Rev.  Alpheus,  son  of  Cap- 

tain Abijah  and  Sybil  (Adams)  Harding  of  Barre.  He  was  b.  Jan. 
19,  1780,  D.  C.  1805 ;  ordained  at  New  Salem,  Dec.  2,  1807 ;  d. 
circa  1870. 

1.  Martha,  b.  1S09  ;  d.  young. 

2.  Bridge,  b.  1811 ;  d.  young. 

3.  Martha  Smith,  b.  July  1,  1813  ;  m.  July  29,  1838,  Rev.  Asarelah 

Morse  Bridge  (11). 

4.  Josiah  Bridge,  Jan.  11,  1816 ;  m.  Aug.  12,  1839,  Sarah  S.  Proctor  j 

went  west;  d.  in  1863. 

1.  Charles  Proctor,  b.  Sept.  12,  1840. 

2.  George  W.,  b.  May  2,  1842. 

3.  Alpheus,  b.  July  25,  1844. 

4.  Arthur  A.,  b.  July  9,  1847. 

5.  Alpheus,  b.  Jan.  12,  1818 ;  m.  Sept.  16,  1842,  Maria  P.   Taft  of 

Dudley ;  President  of  Athol  Bank. 

1.  Ella  M.,  b.  Feb.  13,  1846;  m.  June  16,  1868,  Albert  L.  Newman, 
President  of  the  Bank  of  the  Commonwealth  in  Boston. 

1.  Albert  H.,  b.  Dec.  5,  1S73. 


(c1)  JOHN   BRIDGE.  45 

2.  William  Bridge,  b.  March  21,  1854 ;  m.  March  21,  1870,  Lillie 
M.  Hathaway  of  Meriden,  Conn. 

1.  Daisy  May,  1>.  May  10,  1*79. 

2.  Alpheus,  b.  May  30,  1881. 

19.  8.  Josiah  (5). 

20.  9.  Charles,  b.  May  30,  1785;  d.  Dec,  1851. 

(3)  Ebenezer  Bridge  (5.5),  b.  in  Lexington,  Feb.  3,  1742;  m. 
Nov.  3,  17G3,  at  Lunenburg,  Mehitable,  dau.  of  Jonathan  and  Sarah 
Wood,  who  was  b.  Dec.  23,  1741,  and  d.  in  Hartland,  Vt.,  July  20, 
1825.     Ebenezer  d.  Feb.  13,  1823. 

An  obituary  notice  of  hirn  says  that  ' '  he  entered  the  Army  of  the 
Revolution  as  Captain,  soon  after  the  Battle  of  Lexington,  and  served 
throughout  the  war,  being  afterwards  Major,  and  then  Colonel. 
When  the  war  broke  out  he  had  a  handsome  property ;  its  termina- 
tion left  him  poor." 

"A  kind  father,  a  benevolent  man,  with  a  will  as  strong  as  his 
affections,"  is  the  characterization  of  one  who  remembered  him. 

21.  1.  Sarah,  b.  in  1766 ;  m.  July  7,  1795,  Elisha  Herrick  of  Hartland,  who 

was  b.  Jan.  10,   1763,  and  d.  Sept.  6,  1831.     Sarah  d.  in  Corinth. 
X.H.,  Aug.  17,  1S03. 

1.  Sarah,  b.  in  Corinth,  Oct.  23,  1798 ;  m.  June  9,  1822,  George  W. 

Blossom,  who  was  b.  Oct.  8,  1797,  and  d.  Feb.  27,  1S70.     Sarah 
d.  Dec.  20,  1883. 

1.  Paulina  S.,  b.  Xov.  25,  1824 ;  m.  Charles  H.  Matthews,  and  d. 

Feb.  17,  1846. 

2.  Eliab  H.,  b.  March  30,  1827 ;  m.  July  2,  1856,  Mary  Small,  and 

d.  June  3,  1874. 

3.  Mary  Anne,  b.  July  26,  1829 ;  d.  Jan.  15.  1S47. 

4.  Henry  G.,  b.  Jan.  2,  1S33 ;  m.  Oct.  IS,  1859,  Mary  Jane  George, 

d.' Feb.  24,  1881. 

5.  Joseph  W.,  b.  Sept.  10,  1835;  d.  April  1,  1867. 

6.  Charles  F.,  b.  Feb.  11.  1837  :  m.  Jan.  15, 1868,  Helen  E.  Stevens. 

7.  Calvin  E.,  b.  July  5,  1839 ;  m.  April  6,  1864,  Eliza  J.  Winne. 

2.  Eliab  Bridge,  b.  1800;   m.  Mary  Anne  Rayntond  of  Stowe,  Vt., 

who  d.  Xov.  20,  1845.      He  d.  Feb.  2,  1854.     A  merchant  and 
prominent  citizen. 

1.  Charles  E.,  b.  Xov.  24,  1827;  m.  July  2,  1850,  Maria  B.  Bayley, 

and  d.  May  13,  1870. 

2.  William  Bridge,  b.  1830 ;  d.  March  20,  1850. 

3.  Edward  L.,  b.  1833 ;  m.  Dec.  4,  1860,  Mary  Thorn,  and  d.  April 

11,  1876. 

4.  Carlos,  b.  Xov.  30,  1838 ;  d.  June  28,  1873. 


46  FIFTH   GENERATION. 

22.  2.  Mehitable,  b.  Aug.  3,  1768 ;  m.  Feb.  12,  1788,  Samuel  Kendall,  who 

was  b.  in  Hartland,  Nov.  28,  1766,  and  d.  Jan.  2,  1848,  at  East 
Bethany,  N.Y.  Mehitable  d.  Aug.  29,  1851.  Their  children  were- 
all  b.  in  Strafford,  Vt. 

1.  Samuel,  b.  July  3,  1789  ;  m. 

2.  Melinda,  b.  Sept.  8,  1790 ;  m. Faunce. 

3.  Louisa,  b.  June  1,  1798;  m. Wright;  d.  Feb.  5,  1832. 

4.  Olive,  b.  Aug.  22,  1801 ;  m. Holden ;  d.  Jan.  10,  1874. 

5.  Reuben,  b.  July  1,  1804;  m.  Alice  Holden;  d.  Dec.  30,  1874. 

6.  Azro,  b.  May  28,  1809 ;  m. ;  d.  Feb.  1860. 
All  except  Azro  left  children. 

23.  3.  Ebenezer,  b.  in  1770 ;  m.  Olive  Keith ;  d.  in  Alexandria,  Va.,  Jan.,. 

1801.     No  children. 

24.  4.  Bezaleel  (6). 

25.  5.  John  (7). 

26.  6.  Elizabeth,  b.  in  1777 ;  m.  Amos,  son  of  Daniel  and  Priscilla  G.  Ralph, 

who  was  b.  hi  Woodstock  in  1780,  and  d.  March  29,  1850.  Eliza- 
beth d.  Feb.  2,  1854. 

1.  Eliza  Bridge,  b.  Dec.  28,  1802;  m.  March  17,  1828,  Dr.  Ammi  Wil- 

lard.     He  was  b.  in  Rockingham,  Vt.,  Jan.  16,  1802,  and  d.  in 
Jersey  City,  Jan.  12,  1879.     Eliza  d.  May  8,  1858. 

1.  Oscar  Amos,  b.  Feb.  9,  1829;  m.  Abby  Drew,  dau.  of  Harrison 
and  Eliza  (Drew)  French.     One  daughter. 

2.  Pluma  Harrington,  b. ;  m.  Dr.  William  Bowman,  and  d.  Sept.  10, 

1864.     Pluma  d.  Aug.  9,  1865. 

3.  Lavinia  Wood,  b.  Dec.  10,  1810;  m.  Barnas   Ladd  Delano,  who 

was  b.  Jan.  5,  1807.     Lavinia  d.  Dec.  29,  1866.     He  d.  Oct.  24, 
1877. 
1.  Francis  R.,  b.  Sept.  6,  1842;  m.  at  Niagara  Falls,  Oct.  19,  1871, 
Elizabeth  Grant,  who  was  b.  Nov.  30,  1843. 

27.  7.  James  (8). 

28.  8.  William  (9). 

29.  9.  Jonathan  (10). 


(c)  JOHN  BRIDGE.  47 


SIXTH    GENERATION. 

(4)  John  Bridge  of  Wiscasset  (6.  1),  was  b.  in  Lexington,  July 
12,  1762  ;  in.  Rachel  Flagg  of  Boston,  and  d.  Oct.  17,  1795. 

30.  1.  Hannah,  b.  circa  1788;  m.  before  1806,  John  Kelsea,  who  d.  Xov.  11, 

1865. 

1.  James,  b.  circa  1805;  d.  circa  1820. 

2.  John,  lost  at  sea. 

3.  William,  a  printer  in  Nashville,  Tenn.  d.  (?) 

31.  2.  John,  b.  circa  1790 ;  d.  young. 

32.  3.  Fanny,   b.   in   1792,   in   Wiscasset;   m.   Captain  Joseph   Currier  of 

Warner,  X.H.     They  both  d.  of  Yellow  Fever  in  Augusta,  Ga., 
in  1817. 

1.  Sarah,  b.  circa  1808 ;  d.  in  infancy. 

2.  Elizabeth  Trundy,  b.  April  21,  1812  ;  m.,  I.,  in  Billerica,  June  20, 

1831,  Arza  Page,  who  was  b.  Aug.  9,  1800 ;  d.  in  California, 
whither  he  had  removed  his  family,  Feb.  18,  1868.  Elizabeth 
m.,  II.,  Dec.  25,  1879,  Franklin  Robinson. 

1.  Joseph  Merriam,  b.  Nov.  29,  1832. 

2.  Hannette  Currier,  b.  Sept.  18,  1835;  m.  July  27,  1853,  John 

Henry  Holden. 

3.  Mary  Francis,  b.  July  29,  1S38;  m.  Xov.  9,  1864,  Dr.  Albert 

Thorndike  of  Dixmont,  Me.,  who  d.  Sept.  4,  1874. 

1.  Harriet  G.,  b.  April  18,  1865;  d.  Oct.  1,  1869. 

2.  Bessie  Lora,  b.  Sept.  20,  1867. 

3.  Ella  Augusta,  b.  Sept.  22,  1869. 

4.  Willis  Hale,  b.  Feb.  8,  1872. 

5.  Albert  Page,  b.  Aug.  3,  1874. 

4.  Augusta  Streeter,  b.  Feb.  2,  1841 ;  d.  April  28,  1842. 

5.  Georgiana  Bryant,  b.  Feb.  22,  1843 ;  m.  Sept.  30,  1860,  Jackson 

Wright, 

6.  Elizabeth  Augusta,  b.  March  8,  1845. 

7.  Ella  Maria  Kimball,  b.  Aug.  28,  1849. 

3.  Hannett  Bridge,  b.  June  23,  1813 ;  m.  Jan.  8,  1838,  Luther  Homes 

of  Dorchester.     Living  in  Xew  Orleans. 

1.  Anne  Elizabeth,  b.  Oct.  28,  1838;  m.  Aug.  28,  1855,  Washing- 
ton Irving  Hodgson,  merchant,  in  Xew  Orleans. 

1.  Harry  Homes,  b.  Aug.  2,  1856.     Living  in  Louisville. 

2.  Ella  Jane,  b.  May  27,  1859 ;  m.  Dec.  14,  1880,  George  James 

Long  of  Louisville.     Two  sons. 


48  SIXTH   GENERATION. 

2.  Ella  Jane,  b.  Jan.  4,   1846 ;  m.  Dec.  24,  1869,  Frank  H.,  only 

son  of   Rear-Admiral  Joseph  Green,  U.S.X.,  of  Brookline, 
Mass. 

1.  Daisy  Stella,  b.  Dec.  8,  1874. 

3.  Warren,  b.  Xov.  10,  1849 ;  in.  March   14,  1874,  Isabella  Cham- 

bers Douglas. 

1.  Harry,  b.  Jan.  23,  1S75. 

2.  Herbert  Bridge,  b.  April  15,  1876. 

3.  Josiah  Morrow,  b.  May  10,  1882. 

4.  Joseph,  b.  1815. 

33.  4.  Rachel  Flagg,  b.  Jan.  28,  1794;  m.  March  20,  1S14,  Joseph,  son  of 
Peter  and  Xancy  (Bowman)  Veazie  of  Boston.  Rachel  d.  Sept., 
1837.    Joseph  d.  March  24,  1868. 

1.  Joseph   Augustus,  b.  March  24,  1815;  m.  Francis  Swift  Rogers, 

and  d.  May  9,  1S75. 

1.  Joseph,  b.  May  6,  1S40. 

2.  Judith  Francis,  b.  June  5,  1843 ;  d.  1847. 

3.  Alice,  b.  May  10, 1846. 

4.  Winchester,  b.  Aug.  19,  1848. 

5.  Frank  Boyleston,  b.  Nov.  9,  1850;  d.  June  6,  1874. 

2.  Frances  Bridge,  b.  March  7,  1819;  m.   Oct.  16,   1837,  Benjamin 

Franklin  Tenny,  and  d.  Oct.  14,  1858. 

1.  Joseph,  b.  Xov.  2,  1839 ;  d.  Sept.  1,  1878. 

(5)  Deacon  Josiah  Bridge  (19.8),  b.  Aug.  20,  1782  ;  was  in  busi- 
ness in  Lancaster ;  m.  March  2,  1806,  Eirene,  dau.  of  Rev.  Asarelah 
(H.  C.  1767)  and  Hepzibah  (Hall)  Morse  of  Tisbury.  He  d.  in 
Lowell,  Feb.  8,  1827.  Eirene  was  b.  in  Brewster,  April  23,  1784, 
and  d.  Jan.  28,  1852. 

34.  1.  Hepzibah  Morse,  b.  Feb.  16,  1807;  d.  June  15,  1859. 

35.  2.  Martha  Eirene,  b.  July  11,  1808. 

36.  3.  Asarelah  Morse  (11). 

37.  4.  Nancy,  b.  April  20,  1812  ;  d.  Sept.  24,  1846. 

38.  5.  Sarah,  b.  -Jan.  2,  1814;  d.  Xov.  29,  1814. 

39.  6.  Josiah  (12). 

40.  7.  Sarah,  b.  July  19,  1818;  d.  Xov.  29,  1S73. 

41.  8.  William  Frederick  (13). 

42.  9.  Abigail  Allen,  b.  June  30,  1823. 


(r)  JOHN   BRIDGE.  4!» 

(6)  Bezaleel  Bridge  (24.  1).  1».  Dec.  17,  1771  ;  m.  March  23,  1802, 
Hannah,  dan.  of  Abel  and  Hannah  (Proctor)  Adams,  who  was  b.  in 
West  Windsor.  Dec.  10,  1783;  d.  Feb.  13,  1846.  He  d.  Sept.  4, 
1855. 

43.  1.  Hannah  Maria,  b.  March  30,  1803;  d.  Jan.  21,  1835. 

44.  2.  Sarah  Chase,  b.  Aug.  IS,  1806;    m.  Jan.   7,   1832,    Horace,   son   of 

Jesse  and  Winnefred  (Swift)  Spaulding,  who  was  b.  July  23,  1S05, 
and  d.  Sept.  24,  1878.     Sarah  d.  Nov.  28,  1882. 

1.  Eugene  Horace,  b.  Oct.  2,  1838,  Town  Clerk,  Treasurer.  Repre- 
sentative, etc. 

45.  3.  Bezaleel  (14). 

46.  4.  Abel  Eliab  (15). 

47.  5.  Catharine  Nancy,  b.  Feb.  20,  1813 ;  m.  Feb.  10,  1S57,  Merrick  Spof- 

ford. 

48.  6.  Sylvester  Barnard  (16). 

49.  7.  Eliza  Rolph,  b.  April  27,  1817. 

50.  8.  Mary  Mehitahle,  b.  Jan.  19;  d.  March  8,  1822. 

51.  9.  Ebenezer  Aretus  (17). 

52.  10.  Jane  Loraine,  b.  July  20,  1825;  d.  Feb.  22,  1832. 

(7)  John  Bridge  (25.5),  b.  Nov.  13,  1775;  in.  Jan.  25,  1801, 
Hannah,  dan.  of  Samuel  and  Hannah  (Stowe)  Slayton,  who  was  b. 
Oct.  8,  1781,  and  d.  May  28,  1873,  at  Pomfret.  John  d.  Dec.  10, 
1829.  He  was  a  farmer.  Assistant  Judge  of  Windsor  Co..  1820- 
1825.  "  One  of  the  best  of  men,  a  good  representative  of  his  father. 
At  one  time  the  wealthiest  man,  and  of  greatest  influence  in  his 
neighborhood,  he  died  in  comparative  poverty.  But  he  did  not  part 
with  his  integrity.     He  was  an  honest,  upright  man  through  all." 

53.  1.  John,  b.  June  27,  1S02;  d.  Dec.  8,  1825. 

54.  2.  Reuben  Slayton,  b.  March  11,  1805;  d.  May  2,  1832. 

55.  3.  Ebenezer  (18). 

56.  4.  Almira,  b.  May  12,  1809 ;  m.  Ezekiel  Morrison  of  Laporte,  Ind.,  and 

d.  June  2,  1S56.     Five  children. 

57.  5.  Eveline,  b.  June  17,  1811;  m.  Samuel  E.  Williams,  and  d.  Sept.  17, 

1862.     One  child. 

58.  6.  Hannah  Stowe,  b.  Aug.  18,  1817;  m.  Sutton  Van  Pelt,  and  d.  Dec.  12, 

1848.     Three  children. 

59.  7.  Norman  William,  b.  Nov.  9,  1821 ;  d.  Sept.  3,  1861. 


50  SIXTH   GENERATION. 

(8)  James  Bridge  (27.  7),  b.  March  20,  1781 ;  m.  Susan,  dau.  of 
Daniel  and  Priscilla  G.  Kalph,  who  was  b.  April  7,  1784,  and  d. 
Feb.  20,  1865.  James  d.  Feb.  28,  1862,  at  Malta,  111.  His  manly 
mental  vigor  and  self-control,  preserved  through  many  years  of  ill- 
health,  passed  over  to  his  son,  and  strikingly  characterized  that  son 
also. 

60.  1.  James  Madison  (19). 

(9)  William  Bridge  (28.8),  b.  May  24,  1783  ;  m.  April  14,  1812, 
Susan,  dau.  of  Jacob  and  Anne  (Parks)  Holt  of  Woodstock,  who 
was  b.  Jan.  15,  1792,  and  d.  March  30,  1876.     He  d.  April  19,  1857. 

61.  1.  Eliab  William  (20). 

62.  2.  Lucy  Lyndes,  b.  June  3,  1815;  m.  June  3,  1835,  Edmund  Lawrence, 

son  of  Edmund  and  Abigail  (Burnam)  Page,  and  d.  April,  1874. 

1.  Lucy  Abby,  b.  April  8,  1836 ;  m.  Benjamin  Francis  Mercer. 

2.  Oscar  Edmund,  b.  Sept.  10,  1837 ;  m.  Jane  M.  Haven. 

3.  Susan  Emeroy,  b.  Feb.  27,  1841. 

4.  Elmer  Bridge,  b.  June  2,  1849. 

63.  3.  Susan  Amanda,  b.  May  3,  1817;  d.  March  14,  1818. 

64.  4.  Amanda  Holt,  b.  Dec.  24,  1818 ;  m.  March,  1843,  Benjamin  F.,  son 

of  Nathaniel  and  Anne  (Estabrook)  Hathorn  of  Windsor. 

1.  Ellen  Janette,  b.  Jan.  18,  1846. 

2.  George  Henry,  b.  April  26,  1848. 

3.  Susan  Anne,  b.  April  21,  1852. 

4.  Flora  Amanda,  b.  Aug.  5,  1857. 

65.  5.  Susan,  b.  Nov.  29,  1820;   m.  Dec.  30,  1843,  Isaac  Leander,  son  of 

Isaac  and  Rosella  (Clapp)  Doten  of  Barnard,  Vt. 

1.  Frank  Louis,  b.  Aug.  16,  1846;  m.  Charlotte  Bearup  of  Laporte, 

Ind. 

2.  Charles  William,  b.  Oct.  31,  1848. 

63.  6.  Oliver  Holt,  b.  Oct.  30,  1824.     Not  married. 

67.  7.  Louisa  Malvina,  b.  Oct.  20,  1826 ;  d.  Nov.  9,  1872. 

68.  8.  Rosamond  Elizabeth,  b.  May  7,  1831 ;  m.  March,  1858,  Solomon  F., 

son  of  Ebenezer  and  Deborah  Whitney.     Two  children. 

69.  9.  Henry  MelviUe  (21). 

(10)  Jonathan  Bridge   (29.9),  b.   May  23,  1787;    m.  Feb.    11, 
1812,  Hannah,  dau.    of  Simeon   and   Hannah  (Bishop)   Taylor   of 


(f)  JOHN    BKIDGE.  51 

Windsor,  who  was  b.  April  8,  1793,  and  d.  March  23,  18G7.     Jona- 
than d.  at  Stowe,  Vt.,  July  4,  1866. 

70.  1.  Erastus  Taylor  (22). 

71.  2.  Simeon  (23). 

72.  3.  Hannah,  b.  Sept.  3,  1819;  m.  Xov.  17,  1853,  Benjamin  Franklin,  son 

of  Benjamin  Page  and  Mary  Colson  (Truphant)  Kidder,  who  was 
b.  Jan.  21,  1817. 

1.  Lucius  L.,  b.  Oct.  16,  1S5C :  m.  May  12,  1881,  Mary  C.  Tucker. 

2.  Charles  W.,  b.  July  8,  1858 ;  d.  Xov.  5,  1859. 

73.  4.  Pluma.  b.  July  29,   1821;  m.   April  23,  1S50,  Haven  Peter,  son  of 

Solomon  and  Hannah  ("Webster)  Stowe  of  Morristown.     He  was 
b.  June  28,  1820. 

1.  Dora  G.,  b.  Jan.  9,  1854 ;  d.  July  26,  1857. 

2.  Fluella  Ruth,  b.  Aug.  16,  1858. 

3.  Mabel  G.,  b.  April  19,  1863 ;  d.  Feb.  24,  1864. 

4.  Anne  Bridge,  b.  July  16,  1865. 

74.  5.  Charles  (24). 

75.  6.  Catharine  Rood,  b.  Feb.  5,  1826;  m.  June  7,  1846,  George  Akeley, 

son  of  Joel  and  Mehitable  (Akeley)  Harris,  who  was  b.  Dec.  16, 
1823. 

1.  Charles  Bridge,  b.  Xov.  18,  1847;  m.  Lilly  Waite,  who  was  b.  July 

18,  1849. 

2.  Annette,  b.  Oct.  9,  1849 ;  m.  Albert  L.  Holmes,  and  d.  Feb.  18, 

1878. 

3.  Benton  Joel,  b.  Oct.  21,  1850;  m.  Francis  Windsor. 

4.  Ida  M.,  b.  Dec.  5,  1853. 

5.  Oscar  G.,  b.  June  29,  1856. 

6.  Whitman  F.,  b.  May  28,  1858. 

7.  Lucius  L.,  b.  Aug.  26,  1860. 

8.  Frederick  H.,  b.  July  15,  1862. 

76.  7.  Lucius,  b.  May  25,  1828;  d.  Oct.  8, 1859. 

77.  8.  Harriet,  b.  May  9,  1831 ;  m.  May  17,  1866,  John  Downer,  son  of 

Daniel  and  Harmony  (Downer)  Bridgman,  who  was   b.  July  4, 
1834. 

1.  Caroline  Lee,  b.  Dec.  17,  1870. 

2.  Charles  Bridge,  b.  Dec.  15,  1872. 

3.  Harriet,  b.  May  19 ;  d.  Aug.  9,  1874. 

78.  9.  Elizabeth  Alcina,  b.  July  13,  1833;  d.  Sept.  18,  1855. 


52  SEVENTH   GENERATION. 


SEVENTH    GENERATION. 

(11)  Rev.  Asarelah  Morse  Bridge  (36.  3),  b.  Jan.  21,  1810  ;  Camb. 
Div.  School,  1835  ;  ordained  in  Norton,  Jan.,  1836  ;  m.,  I.,  July  31, 
1838,  Martha  Smith,  dau.  of  Rev.  Alpheus  and  Sarah  (Bridge) 
Harding  (see  18.  7.  3),  who  d.  May  21,  1841  ;  m.,  II.,  June  I.  1811, 
Mary  Anne,  dau.  of  David  and  Sophia  (Jenkins)  Fullam  of  Fitzwil- 
liam,  N.H.     He  d.  in  Marshfield,  Dec.  11,  1861. 

79.  1.  Frederick  Harding,  b.  Sept.  1,  1839;  d.  1867. 


80.  2.  Mary  Ellen,  b.  July  31,  1816. 
8b  3.  Charles  Lee  Follen  (25). 

82.  1.  Emma,  b.  Aug.  19,  1853;  d.  Xov.  17.  In  2. 

(12)  Josiah  Bridge  (39.6),  b.  May  4,  1816;  m.  Sept.  11,  1840, 
Eleanor,  dau.  of  Joshua  and  Eleanor  (Gates)  Harrington.  Joshua 
was  son  of  Joshua;  see  Bond,  Harrington,  136.5.3.  Josiah  d.  in 
Cincinnati,  March  22,  1876.     Eleanor  d.  March  7,  1882. 

83.  1.  George  Worrell,  b.  Sept.  26,  1S41 ;  d.  Aug.  8,  1S66. 

84.  2.  Nancy  Eirene,  b.  Xov.  29,  1S43. 

85.  3.  Martha  Harding,  b.  April  14,  1846. 

86.  4.  William  Frederick,  b.  Jan.  10,  184S;  d.  June  11,  1870. 
87.-  5.  Lucy  Anne  Waldron,  b.  Aug.  8,  1849. 

The  three  daughters,  following  the  calling  of  their  father,  have 
been  teachers  in  Cincinnati  from  early  womanhood. 

(13)  William  Frederick  Bridge  (41.8),  b.  Feb.  15,  1821;  H.  C. 
1846  ;  Camb.  Div.  School,  1849  ;  ordained  at  East  Lexington,  Nov. 
7,  1849  ;  Teacher  ;  Prof,  of  Moral  Phil,  in  Antioch  College;  m.  Feb. 
24,  1850,  Elizabeth  Guild,  dau.  of  Rev.  Jaazaniah  Crosby,  D.D., 
H.  C.  1810,  and  of  Huldah  Robinson  (Sage)  Crosby.  Elizabeth  was 
b.  July  10,  1827.     See  History  of  Charlestown,  N.H. 

88.  1.  Elizabeth  Crosby,  b.  April  11,  1851. 

89.  2.  William,  b.  Feb.  20,  1853 ;  d.  Feb.  22,  1S54. 

90.  3.  Anne  Palfrey,  b.  Dec.  19,  1854 ;  m.  July  10,  187S,  in  Yellow  Springs, 

Ohio,  William  Taggard,  son  of  Solomon  and  Mary  Elizabeth 
(Taggard)  Piper  of  Cambridge,  Mass.  See  Genealogy  of  Family 
of  Solomon  Piper.  William  was  b.  Aug.  9,  1853;  H.  C.  1S74; 
Ph.D.,  H.  C,  18S3. 

1.  William  Bridge,  b.  Nov.  21,  1880. 

2.  Elizabeth  Bridge,  b.  Sept.  19,  1883. 


(V)  JOHN   BRIDGE.  53 

91.  4.  James  Crosby,  b.  Jan.  26,  ls"7. 

92.  5.  Henry  Whitney,  b.  Aug.  16,  1858. 

93.  6.  William  Frederick,  b.  Jan.  12,  1861 ;  Univ.  of  Cm.  188-4. 
91.  7.  Josiab,  b.  June  21,  1S62  ;  II.  C.  1881. 

95.  8.  Herbert  Sage,  b.  July  4.  1865. 

96.  9.  Katharine  May.  b.  March  26,  186S. 
97. 10.  Walter  Guild,  b.  Sept.  29,  1869. 

(14)  Bezaleel  Bridge  (45.  3 ) .  b.  March  30,  1808,  in  West  Windsor  ; 
m.,  I.,  April  16,  1833,  Lucina  Sophronia,  dau.  of  Rev.  Samuel  and 
Mary  (Bragg)  Lamson.  who  was  b.  May  11,  1808,  and  d.  Oct.  8, 
1841.     "One  of  the  best  of  women."     Bezaleel  d.  Nov.  25,  1863. 

II..  March  10,  1842,  Emily  Sophia,  dau.  of  Thomas  and  Nancy 
(Marsh)  Bagley.  who  was  b.  July  10,  1818,  and  d.  Oct.  2,  1854. 

III.,  Aug.,  1855.  Susan  Lawrence,  dau.  of  Dr.  Joseph  and  Abi 
(Hartwellt  Mansfield,  who  was  b.  Aug.  24,  1816,  and  d.  Oct.  2.  1854. 

98.  1.  Xewton  Freeman  (26). 

99.  2.  Walter  Holbrook,  b.  and  d.  Oct.  15,  1836. 

100.  3.  Coridon  Slafter,  b.  April  25.  1841 ;  m.  July  29,  1868,  Hannah  Fran- 

ces,   dau.    of    Luther    Sidney,    and    Mary   Dennett    (Woodsum) 
Palmer.     Their  children  all  d.  in  infancy. 

101.  4.  George  Colimer,  b.  March  17.  1843. 

102.  5.  Henry  Clay.  b.  May  20,  1S44  ;  d.  July  31.  1848. 

103.  6.  Susan  Mansfield,  b.  Sept.  17,  1846;  d.  July  22,  1848. 

104.  7.  Charlotte   Abi,  b.  June  6,  1849;  m.  Jan.   12.  1871,  James  Clinton, 
•         son  of  James  Madison  and  Emebne  Elvira  (Cady)  Taylor. 

1.  Luna  May.  b.  Dec.  15.  1872. 

2.  Guy  Cady.  b.  March  31,  1878. 

105.  S.  Frank  Bezaleel.  b.  Nov.  29.  1850:  d.  Jan.  24.  1851. 

106.  9.  Edwin  Bagley  (27). 

(15)  Abel  Eliab  Bridge  (46.4).  b.  Feb.  4,  1810;  m..  I..  April  3. 
1831,  Caroline  Rebecca,  dau.  of  William  and  Rebecca  (Abbot) 
Spaulding,  who  was  b.  Feb.  2,  1812;  d.  Aug.  5,  1850.  II..  Feb., 
1851,  Sarah,  dau.  of  Joseph  and  Rhoda  Raymond,  b.  Sept.  30.  1812; 
d.  May  23,  1875.  IIL.  Mrs.  Philinda  Nichols,  dau.  of  Daniel  and 
Rebecca  (Abbot)  Snow,  who  was  b.  Jan.  23.  1830.  Abel  d.  April 
13,  1881. 


54  SEVENTH   GENERATION. 

107.  1.  Vashti  Gilson,  b.  Feb.  8,  1832 ;  m.  March  24,  1850,  Philemon,  son 
of  Roswell  and  Mercy  (Church)  Davis,  who  was  b.  March  24, 
1824. 

1.  Mary  Caroline,  b.  Jan.  28,  1851 ;  m.  Montgomery  Muncy. 

2.  Emily  Maria,  b.  March  29,  1852  ;  d.  Sept.  27,  1877. 

3.  Eleanor  Peterson,  b.  Feb.  16,  1854;  d.  March  14,  1878. 

4.  Lilian,  b.  July  14,  1858;  d.  Sept.  8,  1878. 

5.  Georgietta  Fidelia,  b.  Dec.  23, 1860 ;  m.  Wilmot  Wesley  Chapman. 

6.  Kate  Lindsey,  b.  Nov.  18,  1873 ;  d.  Aug.  22,  1875. 


108.  2.  Josiah  Gilson  (28). 

109.  3.  Emily  Waldo,  b.  Jan.  17,  1857  ;  m.  Dec.  28,  1876  or  1878,  Sanford 

Kingsbury,  son  of  Robert  W.  Huston  of  Eastport,  who  was  b. 
Jan.  24,  1855. 

(16)  Sylvester  Barnard  Bridge  (48.  6),  b.  March  1,  1815  ;  m.,  I., 
Sept.  5,  1839,  Laura  Lavinia,  dau.  of  Cheney  and  Lavinia  (Stowe) 
Lamson,  who  d.  April  25,  1841.  II.,  m.  Sept.  13,  1842,  Lois  Maria, 
dau.  of  Thomas  and  Nancy  (Marsh)  Bagley,  who  was  b.  March  7, 
1823  ;  d.  Oct.  15,  1863.    Sylvester  d.  Dec.  15,  1854,  at  Sycamore,  111. 

110.  1.  Wallace  Charles,  b.  April  20,  1841 ;  d.  June  17,  1855. 


111.  2.  Emeroy  Maria,  b.  Aug.  8,  1844;  d.  Feb.  9,  1871. 

112.  3.  Ada  Louisa,  b.  March  9,  1847 ;  m.  March  27,  1870,  Oscar  Robinson, 

son  of  James  Varnum  Bowers  of  Weathersfield. 

1.  Orra  Ames,  b.  Nov.  28,  1871. 

2.  Albert  Marcus,  b.  Feb.  11,  1875. 

3.  Lillian  Lester,  b.  May  21,  1881. 

113.  4.  Ella  Marcia,  b.  July  6,  1849 ;  m.  March  30,  1871,  Joshua  Hoyt,  son 

of  Joshua  and  Belinda  (Haynes)  Sargent,  living  in  New  Hamp- 
ton, N.H.     Joshua  was  b.  Dec.  16,  1837. 

1.  Agnes  May,  b.  in  North  Chelmsford,  June  28,  1872. 

2.  Harriet  Maria,  b.  in  North  Chelmsford,  Jan.  30,  1876. 

3.  Elizabeth  Belinda,  b.  in  New  Hampton,  Aug.  1,  1879. 

114.  5.  Frank  Parker,  b.  June  5,  1854;  d.  April  22,  1875. 

(17)  Ebenezer  Aretus  Bridge  (51.9),  b.  Feb.  14,  1823;  m.  June 
16,  1846,  Isabella  Spooner,  dau.  of  Samuel  and  Sylvia  (Patrick) 
Waldron. 

115.  1.  Charles  Elmer,  b.  May  10,  1847  ;  d.  Aug.  3,  1S48. 

116.  2.  Jesse  Gertrude,  b.  Sept.  9,  1848;  d.  April  3,  1853. 


(c)    JOHN   BRIDGE.  55 

117.  3.  Emily  Dalton,  b.  .Tune  11,  1850;  m.  July  4,  18G9  ;  Alfred  Levi,  son 
of  . Vinos  and  Laura  (Boynton)  Howard,  who  was  b.  Sept.  25,  is  17. 

1.  Jennie  Gertrude,  b.  Oct.  22,  1870. 

2.  Edith  Belle,  b.  Feb.  8,  1873. 

3.  Blanche,  b.  March  2,  1875. 
1.  Maud,  b.  June  11,  1877. 

5.   Benjamin,  b.  July  12,  1879. 

US.  4.  Stella  Caroline,  b.  March  8,  1852;  in.  Aug.  27,  1878,  Millard  Henry, 
son  of  Isaae  and  Sarah  Anne  (Marcy)  Morgan,  who  was  b.  Sept. 
6,  1850. 

1.  Belle  Morgan,  b.  April  22,  1879. 

2.  Jollie  Isaac,  b.  Jan.  31,  1880. 

3.  Helen  Parrost,  b.  July  8,  1881. 

119.  5.  Samuel  Waldron,  b.  Sept.  22,  1853  ;  m.  Sept.  1,  1880,  Sarah  Isabella, 

dau.  of  Edwin  and  Susan  Quimby  Brown,  who  was  b.  June  28, 
1856. 

120.  0.  Adeline  Eliza,  b.  Oct.  12,  1854;  m.  June  29,  1879,  Charles  Francis, 

son  of  David  and  Fanny  (Bloomer)  Kelly,  who  was  b.  Feb.  8, 
1855. 

1.  Frederick  Ebenezer,  b.  March  28,  1881. 

121.  7.  Frederick  Thompson,  b.  March  8,  18.60; 

122.  8.  Guy  Sylvester,  b.  Sept.  25,  1865. 

(18)  Ebenezer  Bridge  of  Pomfret  (55.3),  b.  March  31,  1807;  m. 
March  2,  1836,  Maria  Louisa  Gary,  adopted  dau.  of  Gardner  and 
Mary  (Burns)  Winslow,  who  was  b.  March  31,  1815,  and  d.  Jan.  29, 
is 79.     Ebenezer  d.  Feb.  22,  1881. 

123.  1.  Cornelia  Maria,  b.  Nov.  16,  1836  ;  m.  Jan.  6,  1864,  Henry  Clay,  son 

of  Edward  and  Nancy  Hepburn  Philips,  who  was  b.  March   11, 
1838. 

1.  Alice,  b.  Jan.  20,  1865. 

2.  Hugh,  b.  Feb.  4,  1866. 

124.  2.  Eveline  Williams,  b.  May  18,  1S41 ;  d.  May  22,  1849. 

125.  3.  Eveline  Williams,  b.  Aug.  16,  1850. 

126.  4.  Elizabeth  Frances,  b.  March  31,  1852. 

127.  5.  Ebenezer,  b.  April  15,  1859. 

(19)  James  Madison  Bridge  (60. 1),  b.  Oct.  31,  1816  ;  in.  Dec.  2, 
1841,  Nancy  Anne,  dan.  of  Thomas  and  Nancy  (Marsh)  Bagley,  who 
was  b.  Feb.  24,  1818.     James  d.  at  Scranton,  Iowa,  Feb.  10,  1849. 

128.  1.  Edward,  b.  June  30,  1843  ;  d.  Jan.  10,  1864. 

129.  2.  Norman  (29). 


56  SEVENTH    GENERATION- 

130.  3.  Susan,  b.  Oct.  15,  1851;  m.  Dec.  21.  1870,  Hardin,  son  of  Sylvester 

and  Syria  (Town)  Hatch  of  Sycamore,  HI. 

1.  Florence,  b.  Dec,  1872. 

2.  Elva  Mae.  b.  July.  1874. 

3.  Elizabeth,  b.  Feb.,  1876. 

1.  Edward  Elmer,  b.  April.  1^77. 

5.  Pearl,  b.  Sept.,  1878. 

0.  Edith  Susan,  b.  May  27.  1882. 

(20)  Eliab  Williams  Bridge  (61.1).  b.  April  22.  1813;  m..  I., 
March  9.  1843.  Caudace  S.,  dau.  of  Isaac  and  Ruth  Gage.  b.  April 
20,   1819;  d.   Aug.   1,  1881.      II.,  April  18,   1882,   Mrs.  Mary  W. 

Barrows. 

131.  1.  George  Eliab,  b.  Dec.  12,  1843;  m.  Emogene  Fisher.     Lives  in  Bel- 

lows Falls. 

132.  2.  William  Carlos,  b.  Sept.  12.  1847 ;  fell  from  mast-head  off  Labrador, 

July  21.  1S79. 

(21)  Henry  Melvin  Bridge  (69.  9),  b.  Oct.  25,  1*34  :  m.  Aug.  12. 
1858,  Jennie  M.,  dau.  of  Alexander  and  Mary  (Drumniond)  Forest 
of  Scotland,  and  d.  Jan.  13,  1864. 

133.  1.  Edith  Lenore,  b.  Xov.  26,  1859;  d.  Oct.  25,  1870. 

134.  2.  Mary  Louise,  b.  March  1,  1861. 

135.  3.  Henry  Melvin,  b.  Feb.  12,  1863;  d.  1879. 

(22)  Erastus  Taylor  Bridge  (70.  l).b.  March  29.  1813.  at  El- 
more, Vt.  ;  m.  Sept.  11.  1838.  Roxana,  dau.  of  Daniel  and  Mary 
(Starrett)  McLean  of  Lowell,  who  was  b.  July  22.  1817.  and  d.  Dec. 
3,  1864. 

136.  1.  Le  Roy,  b.  and  d.  Aug.  18,  1842. 

137.  2.  Emily  Augusta,  b.  Feb.  24,  1846. 
13S.  :;.  Arrietta  Estella,  b.  Sept.  10,  1850. 

139.  4.  Mabel  Leslie,  b.  Oct.  8,  1854. 

140.  :,.  Mary  Harriet  Isadore.  b.  Aug.  4,  1859 ;  m.  Dec.  28,   1882,  William 

Ellsworth,  son  of  William  Augustus  Somerset  and  Abigail  (Bai- 
ley) Smythe. 

(23)  Simeon  Bridge  (71.2).  b.  Sept.  1,  1816;  m.  Jan.  3,  1843, 
Lois  rhilena,  dau.  of  Isaac  and  Sally  (Kenney)  Allen. 

111.  1.  George  Allen  (30). 

142.  2.  Luella  Fedora,  b.   Sept.  7,  1850:  m.  Dec.  30,  1875.  Edward  Oscar, 

son  of  Cyrus  and  Lydia  (Leach)  Joslyn.  b.  July  20,  l^ihJ. 

143.  3.  James  William,  b.  Jan.  21,  1858:  d.  March  8.  1880. 


(c)   JOHN   BRIDGE.  57 

(24)  Charles  Bridge  (14.5),  b.  Jan.  14.  1824;  m.  Jan.  22.  1862, 
Lacy  Medora,  dan.  of  Dr.  Almerin  and  Caroline  Abigail  (Vilas) 
Tinker  of  Burlington,  who  was  b.  Aug.  24,  1837. 

144.  1.  Charles  Francis,  b.  Feb.  26,  1865. 


EIGHTH    GENERATION. 

(25)  Charles  Lee  Follen  Bridge  (81.  3).  b.  July  16.  1849,  in  Ber- 
nardston;  m.  Oct.  18,  1871,  Marietta,  dan.  of  Joseph  Andress  and 
Emeline  Stone  (Lowe)  Safford,  who  was  b.  Aug.  19,  1852. 

145.  1.  Emma  Mabel,  b.  Sept.  24.  1872. 
lit:.  2.  Mary  Josephine,  b.  Oct.  2,  1874. 

147.  :!.  Charles  Edwin  Bradford,  b.  Feb.  29,  1876. 

148.  4.  Ernest,  b.  April  15,  1878. 

149.  5.  Marian  Ethel,  b.  May  23,  1881. 

(26)  Newton  Freeman  Bridge  (98.  1).  b.  May  14.  1834  :  m.  April 
15,  1858.  Mary  Louisa,  dan.  of  Benjamin  and  Louisa  (Bradley) 
Ayres,  who  was  b.  May  11.  1840  ;  d.  June  24.  1880. 

150.  1.  Charles  Lucius,  b.  July  16,  I860. 

151.  2.  Byron  Alton,  b.  Dec.  12,  1861. 

152.  3.  Colimer  George,  b.  Sept.  12,  1864. 

153.  4.  Lillian  May,  b.  Oct.  9,  1867. 

154.  5.  Frederick  Xewton,  b.  April  17,  1874. 

155.  ti.  Albert  Dana.  b.  Aug.  12,  1876. 

(27)  Edwin  Bagley  Bridge  (106.9),  b.  June  6,  1852:  m.  March 
4.  1873,  Sarah  Elizabeth,  dan.  of  Isaac  and  Sarah  Anne  (Marcy) 
Morgan.     He  d.  Aug.  5.  1878. 

1  56.  1.  Edwin  Isaac,  b.  Sept.  28,  1874 

(28)  Josiah  Gilson  Bridge  (103.2).  b.  in  Lexington.  Aug.  5, 
1852;  m.  Oct.  30,  1875,  Isabella  Maria  Burroughs. 

157.  1.  Caroline  Luella.  b.  Oct.  22,  1875;  d.  Feb.  22,  1879. 

(29)  Norman  Bridge  (139.  2),b.  Dec.  30,  1844;  m.  May  1.  1874, 
Mae.  dan.  of  Lev.  Erasmus  and  Hannah  (Bryant)  Manford  of 
Chicago.  M.D..  Pres.  of  Board  of  Education  in  Chicago.  Prof,  in 
Rush  Medical  School,  Mem.  of  Am.  Med.  Assoc,  and  of  111.  Med. 
Soc,  Mem.  of  Chicago  Acad,  of  Sciences,  Arts,  and  Letters.  Their 
only  child  d.  in  early  infancy. 


58  EIGHTH   GENERATION. 

(30)  George  Allen  Bridge  (141.1),  b.  July  17,  1847;  m.  March 
23,  1870,  Ellen  Clara,  dau.  of  Amasa  and  Ruth  Bennet  (Hubbel) 
Burke  of  Morristown.     Ellen  was  b.  Sept.  19,  1850. 

158.  1.  Charles  Merritt,  b.  Dec.  2,  1871. 

159.  2.  George  Walter,  b.  Aug.  25,  1873. 

160.  3.  Perley  Burke,  b.  Feb.  21,  1S76. 

161.  4.  Mabel  Ruth,  b.  Oct.  12,  1878. 

162.  5.  Winfield  Allen,  b.  Oct.  30,  1881. 


(d)    SAMUEL   BRIDGE.  59 


FOURTH    GENERATION. 
(d)   The  Family  of  Samuel  Bridge. 

Samuel  Bridge,  the  fourth  and  j'oungest  son  of  Matthew  Bridge, 
jr.,  was  b.  in  Lexington,  May  2.  1705. 

He,  as  well  as  his  brothers,  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  adminis- 
tration of  Town  Affairs,  serving  on  Committees,  as  Assessor,  and  as 
Selectman. 

He  m.,  I.,  Susanna  Reed,  who  d.  Jan.  16,  1735,  set.  24.  II., 
April  27,  1738,  Martha,  dau.  of  Joseph  and  Phoebe  Bowman,  who 
was  b.  Sept.  8,  1718,  and  d.  June  10,  1793,  get.  76.  Samuel  d. 
June  3,  1791. 

1.  1.  Samuel,  b.  Jan.  G,  1735;  m.   Hannah  Townsend,  and  went  to  Ver- 
mont. 


2.  2.  Edmund  (1). 

3.  3.  William  (2). 

4.  4.  Nathan,  b.  March  20,  1743;  d.  Sept.  14,  1771. 

5.  5.  Francis,  b.  Dec.  24,  1745;  d.  Nov.  20,  1747. 

6.  6.  Francis  (3) . 

7.  7.  Martha,  b.  1751  ;  d.  Dec.  20,  1760. 

8.  8.  Matthew  (4). 

9.  9.  Joshua,  b.  Dec.  29,  1754;  d.  Dec.  20,  1760. 

10. 10.  Phoebe,  bap.  Jan.  6,  1756  ;  m.  Nov.  11,  1789,  Stephen,  son  of  Colonel 
James  Barrett  of  Concord,  who  was  b.  Jan.  29,  1750,  and  d.  Feb. 
4,  1824.     Phoebe  d.  June  3,  1845. 

1.  Cyrus,  b.  at  Lexington,  Sept.  2,  1792  ;  d.  in  Baton  Rouge,  La.,  Aug. 
28,  1820. 

11.  11.  James,  b.  Nov.  13,  1757;  d.  Dec.  20,  1760. 

12.  12.  Jonas  (5). 

13. 13.  Joshua,  b.  1760 ;  d.  Dec.  19,  1761. 


60  FIFTH   GENERATION. 


FIFTH    GENERATION. 


(1)  Edmund  Bridge  (2.2),  b.  Aug.  6,  1739.  At  the  age  of 
twenty-one  he  left  his  father's  house  to  find  a  new  place  for  himself 
in  some  unsettled  region.  He  was  drawn  to  Maine,  —  to  that  part 
of  Pownalborough  on  the  lower  Kennebec  now  called  Dresden. 
There  he  worked  for  three  years,  clearing  the  land  and  preparing  for 
a  home.  He  then  returned  to  Lexington,  and  m.  Sept.  6,  1764,  his 
cousin  Phoebe,  dau.  of  Joseph  and  Thankful  (Forbush)  Bowman. 
She  was  b.  May  7,  1747,  and  d.  July  24,  1828. 

The  energy  which  impelled  him  also,  as  well  as  his  ancestors  of 
the  first  and  second  generations,  to  be  a  pioneer,  soon  made  him  con- 
spicuous as  a  servant  of  the  common  weal.  He  was  first  made  Clerk 
of  the  Town,  then  a  Justice  of  the  Peace,  when,  so  to  serve,  gave 
quite  large  distinction.  Then  came  on  the  quarrel  with  England,  and 
he  knew  where  to  place  himself  and  what  to  do.  He  was  "  active  in 
sustaining  the  Revolutionary  Government,  and  was  put  on  the  Com- 
mittees of  Safety  and  Correspondence." 

Before  peace  was  proclaimed,  in  1782,  he  was  made  High' Sheriff  of 
Lincoln  County,  and  served  as  such  for  more  than  thirty  years.  The 
office  at  that  time  conferred  marked  distinction.    He  d.  Sept.  10,  1785. 

He  was,  we  are  told,  of  middle  height,  compactly  built,  with  an 
open,  expressive  countenance,  showing  kind  benevolence.  No  man 
was  more  esteemed  and  beloved  by  all  classes.  Giving  the  careful 
heed  of  an  exemplary  parent  to  the  education  of  his  own  children,  he 
earnestly  and  judiciously  sought  to  promote  the  intellectual,  moral, 
and  religious  education  of  all  the  children  in  his  neighborhood. 

In  North's  History  of  Augusta,  in  Willis's  Lawyers  and  Law 
Courts  of  Maine,  and  in  the  Appendix  to  Willis,  giving  sketches  of 
this  family  by  Hon.  John  H.  Shepherd,  are  interesting  accounts  of 
himself  and  of  his  descendants. 

His  wife  was  tall  and  of  large  frame.  She  was  an  excellent  woman, 
firm,  energetic,  and  persevering,  and  doing  her  full  part  in  exercising 
the  large-hearted,  almost  unlimited,  hospitality  of  the  house.  Twenty- 
five  saddles,  belonging  to  the  different  guests  that  they  entertained, 
who  had  chanced  to  come  together  the  evening  before,  she  counted 
on  one  morning  in  her  kitchen.  Tallyrand  and  Louis  Phillippe  were 
among  their  foreign  visitors.  No  American  of  distinction  seems  to 
have  found  his  way  to  their  neighborhood,  whether  drawn  thither  by 
the  fame  of  their  attractions  or  from  other  causes,  who  did  not  meet 
with  a  cordial  reception  from  them  and  a  home  with  them  while  he 
could  stay. 


(i7)    SAMUEL   BRIDGE.  61 

14.  1.  James  | 

15.  2.  Martha,  b.  April,  176S;  m.  Colonel  Arthur,  son  of  Colonel  'William 

and  Sarah  (Noble)  Lithgow.  lie  was  the  first  Sheriff  of  Kennebec 
County.  -Popular,  hospitable,  genial."  He  d.  in  Roxbury,  Mass., 
Aug.  11.  1835,  aet.TS.  His  wife  was  a  noble-hearted,  cheerful,  ex- 
cellent woman,  remarkable  for  a  shrewdness  and  energy  and  intel- 
ligence which  she  seems  to  have  transmitted  to  very  many  of  her 
descendants.  She  d.  in  Chariest  own.  April  6,  1852.  See  North, 
pp.  901  and  223  and  seq.  Also  Shepherd  in  Willis.  And  for  an 
*  account  of  her  family  and  descendants,  see  Appendix  II.  to  this 
book. 

16.  3.  Phoebe,  b.  March  6,   1771:  m.  Jan.   1.   1799,  William,  son  of  Judge 

Jonathan  and  Mary  Emerson  (Lowell)  Bowman,  and  d.  Feb.  27, 
i842.  William  was  b.  Oct.  2,  1772.  and  d.  Sept.  10,  1826.  A 
lawyer  at  Wiscasset.     Cf.  Bond,  pp.  693,  69L 

1.  Mary  Lowell,  b.  March  2,  1802  ;  m.  Feb.  27,  1837,  James  Johnson, 

and  d.  Feb.  27.  1665.     He  d.  Jan.  1,  1857. 

1.  Bowman  Bridge,  b.  Jan.  22,  1842. 

2.  Edmund  Bridge,  b.  Aug.  29,  1804;  Bowd.  C.  1S23;  a  lawyer  and 

Clerk  of  the  Courts ;  m.  Dec.  3,  1828,  Hannah,  dau.  of  James 
and  Mary  Norris.  He  d.  at  Wiscasset,  March  19,  1864.  She, 
at  Somerville,  July  9,  1860. 

1.  Phcebe,  b.  April  17,  1830;  m.  William  Clark;  d.  Jan.  31,  1865. 

2.  Mary  Helen,  b.  Jan.  10,  1832;  m.  May  24,  1855,  Capt.  Edward 

H.  Wood,  and  d.  Dec.  8,  1874. 
1.  Edward  H.,  b.  April  2,  1858  :  d.  March  23,  1879. 

3.  Edmund  Bridge,  b.  July  2:».  1835. 

4.  James  Xorris,  b.  Oct.  2.  1837,  sea  captain.     Lost,  May  3,  1S64. 

5.  Frances  Payson,  b.  July  4,  1840;  m.  Feb.  6,  1866,  Capt,  Gus- 

tavus  Randlett,  and  d.  Aug.  8,  1868. 
1.  Nina  Francis,  b.  July  22,  186S. 

6.  Elizabeth  Young,  b.  Oct.  12,  1842. 

7.  William,  b.  April  22,  1846.     Lost  at  sea,  May  3,  1864. 

8.  Thomas,  b.  May  25,  1^1^.     Clerk  of  the  Court,  etc.,  now  Mayor 

of  Council  Bluffs. 

9.  Jonathan,  b.  March  23,  1852:  d.  Sept.  8,  1867. 

17.  4.  Edmund,  b.  March  25,  1773:  a  distinguished  merchant  of  Wilming- 

ton, X.C.,  universally  beloved;  d.  July  17.  1823.  Unmarried.  At 
his  funeral,  business  in  the  city  was  suspended.  Flags  were  at 
half-mast.  All  classes,  including  the  negroes,  who  mourned  a 
special  friend,  followed  his  remains  to  the  grave. 

18.  5.  Nathan,  b.  Sept.  23,  1775 ;  a  lawyer  in  Gardner,  was  in  business  with 

his  brother  in  Wilmington  ;  d.  Sept.  15,  1827. 


62  FIFTH   GENERATION. 

19.  6.  Samuel  (7). 

20.  7.  William,  b.  May  4,  1781;  a  merchant;    d.  Feb.   22,   1817,  in  New 

Orleans,  whither  he  went  for  health. 

21.  8.  Sarah,  b.  Xov.  15,  1782  ;  m.  May  25,  1808,  Captain  Hartwell,  son  of 

Captain  Seth  and  Zelpha  (Ingraham)  Williams.  She  d.  in  Au- 
gusta, Sept.  15,  1831.  Captain  Hartwell  Williams  was  b.  Xov.  15, 
1781.     A  retired  shipmaster,  he  engaged  in  business  in  Augusta. 

1.  James  Hartwell,  b.  June  22,  1809.     He  was  a  merchant  and  Con- 

sul at   Australia;   m.  Dec.  10,    1850,    Helen,   dau.   of   Prosper 
De  Mestre  of  Sidney,  where  he  d.  Dec.  31,  1881. 

1.  Fitz  James  Hartwell,  b.  Sept.  19,  1851. 

2.  Prosper  Orleans,  b.  Jan.  8,  1858. 

2.  Phoebe  Bowman,  b.  March  17,  1811,  in  Dresden ;  m.  June  5,  1833, 

Elisha  Hathaway,  and  d.  April  17,  1876. 

1.  Sarah  Williams,  b.  July  5,  1838. 

2.  James  Kentworthy,  b.  Aug.  17,  1810. 

3.  George  Henry,  b.  Aug.  19,  1813. 

4.  Frederick  William,  b.  Aug.  17,  1845. 

3.  Sarah  Jane,  d.  young. 

4.  Isabella,  b.  July  31,  1816 ;  m.  Xov.  18,  1841,  Rev.  Frederick  Free- 

man, D.D.,  of  Sandwich,  who  was  the  son  of  Hon.  Nathaniel 

and  Elizabeth  Freeman  of  Sandwich,  Author  of  History  of  Cape 

Cod.  He  d.  Sept.  12,  1883. 
1.  Capt.  Hartwell  Williams,  b.  in  Augusta,  Feb.  5,  1843;  m.,  I.,  in 
Richmond,  Va.,  Jan.  23,  1870,  Annie  Xesbitt;  II.,  June  28, 
1873,  Gertrude  Shaw  of  Richmond.  Capt.  Freeman  was  a 
Lieutenant  in  the  U.  S.  Volunteer  Service.  He  was  at  the 
capture  of  Fort  Hudson.  Afterwards,  he  was  Aide-de-Camp, 
with  the  rank  of  Captain,  on  the  staff  of  Gen.  Charles  P. 
Stone,  who,  at  the  invitation  of  the  Khedive,  became  Com- 
mander of  the  Egyptian  army. 

1.  Hartwell  Xesbitt,  b.  Oct.  29,  1870. 


2.  Annie  Gertrude,  b.  July  14,  1874. 

3.  Charles  Stone,  b.  Jan.  13,  1876. 

2.  George  Arkansas,  b.  Jan.  16,  1815;  m.  Mary      •  Bacon  of  Bos- 

ton, and  d.  in  Boston,  Feb.  18,  1880. 
1.  Mary  Bacon,  b.  Sept.  22,  1872. 

3.  Edmund  Bridge,  b.  Aug.  17,  1819. 

4.  Isabella  Anne,  b.  April  25,  1856. 

22.  9.  Joseph  Bowman,  b.  Sept.  19,  1790;  Selectman  of  --sden;  Repre- 
sentative to  State  Legislature;  Elector  of  the  ident  in  1811. 
d.  July  4,  1866. 


((/)    SAMUEL   BRIDGE.  63 

(•_>)  William  (3.  3),  b.  April  19,  1741,  ensign  of  the  Revolutionary 
Minute  Men,  a  mason,  "  an  excellent  draughtsman,"  a  worthy  man  ; 
m.  in  1705,  Mary  Porter  of  Lexington;  settled  in  Rutland,  Mass.  ; 
d.  Feb.  9,  1804.     Mary  was  b.  in  1745  ;  d.  Nov.  9,  1838,  set.  93. 

23.  1.  William,  b.  Feb.  IS,  17G(i,  was  in  Marietta,  Ohio,  Dec,  1799.     "  No 

doubt  dead  "  in  1834. 

24.  2.  Samuel,  b.  Feb.  18,  1708,  was  in  Hempstead  County,  Ark.,  from  1824 

to  1S34,  in  prosperous  circumstances.  His  wife  and  two  children 
were  then  dead.  Three  sons  and  two  daughters  then  survived. 
They  were  ni.  and  were  settled  in  Missouri  in  1835. 

25.  3.  Emelia,  b.  Sept.  IS,  1709 ;  in.  Oct.   15,  1801,  Zadock,  son  of  Stephen 

and  Damaris  (Howe)  Gates.     He  d.  March  26,  1849. 

1.  Hannah,  b.  July  24,  1802;  d.  April  13,  1810. 

2.  Amelia,  b.  Aug.  5,  1804;  m.  April  19,  1828,  Erastus,  son  of  Wil- 

liam  and   Charlotte  (Robinson)  Dean,  and  d.  Dec.  19,  1855, 
leaving  five  children. 

3.  Maria  Porter,  b.  Nov.  25,  1805  ;  d.  Feb.  2,  1880.     Not  married. 

4.  Charlotte,  b.  April  13,  1807.     Not  married. 

5.  Sarah  Metcalf.  b.  July  9,  1S09 ;  m.  May  11,  1837,  William  Fare- 

well, son  of  William  and  Sarah  (Wetherby)  Davis,  and  d.  May 
24,  1S79. 

6.  Zadock  Wood,  b.  Sept.  7,  1811 ;  m.  Oct.  11,  1838,  Elizabeth  Buck- 

minster,  dau.  of  Joel  and  Elizabeth  (Smith)  Davis,  and  d.  May 
27,  1879. 

7.  AUce  Parker,  b.  Sept.  14,  1814.     Not  married. 

8.  George  Alfred,  b.  May  20,  1816.     Not  married. 

26.  4.  Patty,  b.  June  16,  1770;  d.  March  27,  1836.     Not  married. 

27.  5.  Nathan  (8). 

28.  6.  Charlotte,  b.  March  10,  1776 ;  d.  May  17,  1864. 

29.  7.  Franklin  (9). 

30.  8.  Jonas,  b.  April  27,  1780 ;  d.  March,  1803. 

31.  9.  Polly,  b.  Oct.  19,  1782;  d.  Jan.  1,  1800. 

32. 10.  Edmund,  b.  April  14,  1785  ;  d.  Feb.  23,  1832. 

(3)  Francis  Bridge  of  Winchendon  (6.  6),  bap.  Aug.  28,  1748; 
m.  Feb.  11,  1773,  Eunice,  dau.  of  Benjamin  and  Sarah  (Reed) 
Brown,  and  d.  April  28,  1796.  See  Bond,  p.  146,  Brown  32. 
Eunice  was  b.  Jan.  20,  1751,  and  d.  July  5,  1808. 

33.  1.  Patty,  b.  Feb.  1,  1774;  d.  Aug.  30,  1775. 

34.  2.  Eunice,  b.  March  27,  1776;   m.  Samuel  Downing,  who  d.  Nov.  1, 

:  822,  set.  61.     Eunice  d.  Oct.  29,  1838. 


64  FIFTH   GENERATION. 

1.  Emily,  b.  Jan.  24,  1S01 ;  m.  Xov.  29,  1823,  Sylvester  Ferry,  and 
cl.  March  11,  1864.     Sylvester  d.  Feb.  7,  1S35. 

1.  Francis  Emily,  b.  May  15,  1825;  m.  May  28,  1845,  L.  W.  Gard- 

ner, who  d.  Aug.  3,  1867.     Francis  d.  April  1,  1S73. 

1.  Emily,  b.  Feb.  7,  1S46  ;  m.  Oct.  3,  1866,  John  G.  Yernol. 

1.  L.  W.  Yernol,  b.  Oct.  23,  1868. 

2.  Clarence  Alexis,  b.  Dec.  18,  1877. 

2.  George  J.,  b.  Xov.  28,  1830;  m.,  I.,  May  18,  1852,  Elizabeth  J. 

Bradley  of  Bethel,  Conn.,  who  d.  Aug.  15,  1871 ;  and  George 
m.,  II.,  Sept.  3,  1872,  Virginia  Greene  of  Orange,  X.J. 

1.  Sarah  Francis,  b.  Feb.  1,  1S54;  m.  May  20,  1874,  Earnest 

Napier. 

1.  Lillian  E.,  b.  Jan.  15,  1876. 

2.  Edith  L.,  b.  April  23,  1880. 

3.  Virginia  E.,  b.  Sept.  20,  1882. 

2.  Edward  Sylvester,  b.  Dec.  29,  1857;  m.  May  19,  1881,  Mary 

E.,  dau.  of  Rev.  J.  H.  and  Ellen  Knowles. 

3.  Lewis  Weber,  b.  May  29,  1865;  d.  Jan.  21,  1878. 

4.  Charles  Downing,  b.  June  25,  1868. 


5.  George  J.,  b.  Xov.  8,  1873. 

6.  Clarence  Monroe,  b.  Jan.  18,  1874. 

7.  William  Harvey,  b.  Feb.  4,  1878. 

3.  John  Milton,  b.  April  9, 1832 ;  m.,  I.,  July  15,  1857,  Mary  Keder 
Putter,  who  d.  Xov.  26,  1858;  II.,  June  13,  1860,  Sarah  A. 
Howe,  who  d.  March  1,  1861;  HI.,  May  14,  1S63,  Louisa  A. 
Kee. 

1.  William  Bitter,  b.  March  19,  1862 ;  m.  March  29,  1883,  Char- 
lotte Simmons. 


2.  George  Franklin,  b.  April  19, 1864. 

3.  Milton,  b.  May  7,  1865. 

4.  Stella  Louisa,  b.  April  4,  1867. 

5.  Emily  Lillian,  b.  March  3,  1869. 

6.  Paul,  b.  May  12,  1872. 

7.  Mary  Virginia,  b.  March  29,  1875. 

4.  Edward,  b.  Oct.  26,  1S33 ;  d.  April  1,  1S42. 

2.  Charles,  b.  July  9,  1802 ;  m.  Sept.  20,  1830,  Mary  Wait,  who  d. 

Oct.  18,  1880.     Xo  children.      Mr.  Downing  is  still  living,— 
"  The  most  eminent  pomologist  in  the  United  States." 

3.  George  W.,  b.  Feb.  22,  1804;  m.  Dec.  15,  1825,  Antoinette  Starr, 

who  was  b.  Oct.  10,  1807.     George  d.  April  5,  1846. 


(d)    SAMUEL   BRIDGE.  65 

1.  Charles,  b.  July  4,  1S2S;  m.  March  12,  1S55,  Harriet  N.  Oakley. 

1.  Mary,  b.  Dec.  23,  1855. 

2.  Isabella,  b.  Jan.  5,  1859. 

3.  George,  b.  May  31,  1861. 

2.  Oliver  Starr,  b.  Sept.  8,  1830 ;  d.  July  25,  1852. 

3.  Mary  M.,  b.  Jan.  21,  1833;  m.  Aug.  8,  1855,  Edwin  Harding. 

who  d.  Jan.  7,  1859. 

1.  Grace  E.,  b.  Aug.  14,   1857;   m.  Sept.  5,  1879,  Thomas  J. 
Philips. 

1.  Elma  II.,  b.  Oct.  17,  1880. 

2.  Frederick  F.,  Nov.  4,  1882. 

4.  Fanny,  b.  June  28,  1S08 ;  d.  Oct.  4,  1808. 

5.  Andrew  Jackson,  b.  Oct.  31,  1815;  drowned  July  28,  1852.     "Mr. 

Downing  was  the  most  eminent  horticultural  writer  and  land- 
scape gardener  of  his  time  in  the  United  States." 

35.  3.  Francis,  b.  July  4,  1778  ;  d.  at  Havana,  July  18,  1800. 

36.  4.  Ruhama,  b.  March  30,  1781 ;  m.  Feb.  10,  1810,  Jonas,  son  of  Mose s 

Tyler,  who  was  b.  May  30,  1773,  and  d.  Jan.  26,  1853.     Ruhama 
d.  Jan.  10,  1864. 

1.  George  Washington,  b.  Feb.  5,  1813;  m.  Nov.,  1855,  Mrs.  Louisa 

(Elms)  Drake,  and  d.  in  Leavenworth,  Aug.  22, 1876. 

2.  John  Francis,  b.  Sept.  10,  1815;  d.  March  3,  1837. 

3.  Rebecca  Adams,  b.  March  23,  1817. 

4.  Benjamin  Franklin,  b.  April  4,  1821 ;  m.  Jan.  27,  1845,  Joanna, 

dau.  of  John  Fellows  of  Ipswich,  who  was  b.  July  7,  1820. 

1.  Marie  Louise,  b.  Nov.  7,  1845. 

2.  Erneline    Bridge,   b.   Nov.   7,   1847;    m.   Calvin   Simonds,   Jr. 

Children. 

3.  Franklin,  b.  July  15,  1853. 

4.  Rebecca,  b.  June  29,  1856  ;  d.  Dec.  23,  1871. 

5.  John,  b.  April  12,  1860 ;  m.  Feb.  24,  1S82,  Mary  Russel,  dau.  of 

Charles  and  Sabiah  Fullerton  (Taylor)  McLellan. 

5.  Anne,  b.  April  28,  1823. 

6.  Jonas  Kendall,  b.  March  23,  1825;  m.  Dec.  24,  1874,  Mrs.  Lydia 

Maria  (Preston)  AValsh. 

37.  5.  Levi,  b.  Feb.  15,  1784.     A  man  of  varied  attainments.     Founder  of 

the   Bridge   Charitable    Fund   in   Cambridge,     d.  in    Cambridge. 
April  14, 1876. 

38.  6.  Oliver,  b.  July  20,  1785;  d.  in  Bangor,  June  5,  1842. 

39.  7.  Lucy,  b.  Oct.  5,  17S8 ;  d.  in  Dresden,  March  21,  1855. 


66  FIFTH   GENERATION. 

i  (4)  Hon.  Matthew  Bridge  of  Charlestown  (7.  7),  b.  Jan.  24,  1753  ; 
m.  April  29,  1779,  Alice,  dau.  of  David  and  Alice  (Thompson) 
Parker  of  Billerica,  who  was  b.  Aug.  3, 1758,  and  d.  March  20,  1840. 
Matthew  d.  Nov.  24,  1814.  He  was  a  prominent  merchant  of 
Charlestown,  "exemplary  in  his  domestic  relations,  honored  and 
respected  for  his  character  as  a  business  man,  a  liberal  benefactor, 
and  of  distinguished  service  in  various  municipal  offices  and  in  sev- 
eral years'  work  in  both  branches  of  the  Legislature." 

The  firm  of  which  he  was  the  head  are  said  to  have  sent  out  the 
first  copper-bottomed  vessels  from  the  port  of  Boston. 

40.  1.  Alice,  b.  Xov.  18,  1779  ;  m.  Aug.  15, 1805,  Ebenezer  Baker  of  Charles- 

town, who  was  b.  Jan.  2,  1774,  and  d.  Oct.  28,  1825.     Alice  d.  Jan. 
23,  1858. 

1.  Matthew  Bridge,  b.  Feb.  15,  1807;  a  leading  physician  of  Spring- 

field, Mass.  ;  m.  April  18, 1832,  Catharine  Catlin,  dau.  of  Richard 
of  Deerfield,  who  was  b.  March  16,  1810.     He  d.  Sept,  18,  1839. 

1.  Charlotte  Alice,  b.  April  4,  1833. 

2.  Edgar,  b.  May  24,  1835 ;  d.  Aug.  1,  1839. 

2.  Julianna,  b.  April  8,  1S09 ;  d.  March  8,  1813. 

3.  Julianna,  b.  June  4,  1814 ;  d.  June  30,  1817. 

4.  Ebenezer,  b.  May  21,  1821 ;  m.  Maria  Lane ;  d. 

41.  2.  Nathan  (10). 

42.  3.  Sarah,  b.  Jan.  12,  1788 ;  m.  Sept.  15,  1810,  Seth  Knowles,  who  was  b. 

Jan.  3,  1784,  and  d.  Jan.  7,  1832.     Sarah  d.  Nov.  2,  1825. 

1.  Joseph,  b.  Feb.  14,  1812 ;  m.  June  5,  1847,  Jane  Maria  Davis  of 
Salem,  Tenn.,  who  was  b.  Aug.  27,  1825.  Joseph  d.  Feb.  28, 
1876. 

1.  Seth,  b.  May  16,  1848 ;  m.  July  13,  1876,  Alice  Gilkey,  who  was 

b.  May  14,  1854. 

1.  Kate,  b.  June  19,  1877. 

2.  Joseph  Davis,  b.  July  8,  1879. 

3.  Seth,  b.  April  21,  1881. 

2.  "Winslow  Lewis,  b.  May  9,  1850 ;  m.  Feb.  18,  1880,  Susan  Har- 

riet Curtis  of  Portland,  who  was  b.  Aug.  27,  1850. 

1.  Henry  Lewis,  b.  April  4,  1881 ;  d.  Aug.  19,  1881. 

3.  Alice  Bridge,  b.  May  19, 1852  ;  m.  Aug.  27,  1879,  Warren  Clarke 

Eustis,  who  was  b.  June  3,  1S46.     Alice  d.  Aug.  3,  18S2. 

4.  Caroline,  b.  Feb.  27,  1855. 

5.  Joseph,  b.  July  16,  1859;  m.  Dec.  24.  1878,  Sarah  Lane,  who 

was  b.  July  22,  1862,  at  Minneapolis,  Minn. 


(c?)  SAMUEL   BRIDGE.  67 

2.  Sarah,  b.  March  12,  1815;  m.  Augustus  A.  Gibson. 

3.  Caroline,  b.  Nov.  20,  1816. 

4.  Alice  Bridge,  b.  Nov.  12,  1818;  d.  Dec.  20,  1818. 

43.  4.  Samuel,  b. ;  H.  C.  1816;  d.  1830.     Not  married. 

(5)  Jonas  Bridge  (12.  12),  b.  Sept.  11,  1759;  m.  Susanna,  dau. 
of  Joshua  and  Elizabeth  (Russell)  Reed,  and  d.  June  25,  1837. 
Susanna  was  b.  March  11,  1759,  and  d.  Aug.,  1830. 

44.  1.  Martha,  b.  Jan.  3,  1785;  d.  Feb.  14,  1788. 

45.  2.  Susanna,  b.  Feb.  24,  1787 ;  d.  Nov.  6,  1810.     Not  married. 

46.  3.  Martha,  b.  April  24,  1788;  d.  April  7,  1835.     Not  married. 

47.  4.  Elizabeth,  b.  April  23,  1790 ;  d.  March  27,  1793. 

48.  5.  Jonas,  b.  May  26,  1792 ;  d.  July  5,  1813. 

49.  6.  Samuel,  b.  Nov.  12,  1793 ;  d.  Sept.  30,  1795. 

50.  7.  Bowman,  b.  June  18,  1795;  d.  July,  1820,  at  St.  Louis. 

51.  8.  Samuel  (11). 

52.  9.  Elizabeth,  b.  July  7,  1799  ;  d.  Feb.,  1838.     Not  married. 
53. 10.  Caroline,  b.  July  28,  1800 ;  d.  Nov.  14,  1819.     Not  married. 


68  SIXTH   GENERATION. 


SIXTH    GENERATION. 


(6)  Hon.  James  Bridge  (14.  1),  b.  Sept.  21,  1765,  H.  C.  1787. 
He  read  law  with  Hon.  Tkeophilus  Parsons,  along  with  his  classmate 
and  chnm,  John  Quincy  Adams.  In  1790,  he  opened  a  law  office  in 
Hallowell.  Circumstances  favored  "his  conceded  ability"  and  his 
energy,  so  that  he  early  acquired  a  large  and  profitable  practice. 
His  quickness  of  parts,  and  his  comparatively  easy  circumstances, 
were  not  allowed  to  be  his  excuse  from  persevering  industry.  He 
was  tall  and  imposing  in  form,  and  an  accomplished  and  graceful 
speaker. 

In  1799,  he  was  chosen  as  Representative  to  the  Massachusetts 
Legislature.  In  1800,  he  became  Judge  of  Probate  for  Kennebec 
County.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Executive  Council  in  1818,  and 
a  leading  member  of  the  Convention  to  revise  the  State  Constitution 
in  1819. 

His  refined  literary  taste,  his  great  industry,  and  his  inflexible  and 
firmly-rooted  principles,  joined  to  a  commanding  and  attractive  per- 
sonal appearance,  made  him  always  prominent.  He  was  a  diligent 
reader,  especially  of  theology,  history,  and  classical  Euglish  litera- 
ture. Dr.  Johnson  was  a  special  favorite.  He  used  often  to  repeat 
the  doctor's  maxim,  evidently  regarding  it  as  a  fundamental  principle, 
that,  "  to  be  happy  at  home  is  the  ultimate  end  of  all  ambition." 

I  derive  this  account  of  Judge  Bridge  from  North's  History  of 
Augusta.  The  interesting  narrative  in  that  book  should  be  read  in 
detail.  The  promised  sketch  of  his  life  b}"  his  second  son  and  name- 
sake, to  appear  in  the  Encyclopedia  of  Biography,  makes  further 
account  of  him  here  superfluous. 

He  m.  July  4,  1797,  Hannah,  dau.  of  Hon.  Joseph  and  Hannah 
(Flagg)  North,  and  d.  Jan.,  1834.  Hannah  was  b.  June  9,  1794, 
and  d.  April  9,  1842.  An  excellent  woman,  of  highly  honorable 
lineage  and  connection.     Cf.  Shepherd  and  North. 

54.  1.  Edmund  Theodore  (12). 

55.  2.  Margaret,  b.  Feb.  12,  1S02;  m.  William  Augustus  Steuben,  son  of 

Gen.  "William  and  Mary  (Duane)  North,  who  was  b.  Feb.  1,  1793  ; 
U.  C.  1812;  d.  Nov.  7,  1S45.  See  North's  Augusta.  Margaret  d. 
Dec.  21,  18S2. 

1.  Mary  Catharine,  b.  Jan.,  1S22;  m.  Rev.  Daniel  Cony,  son  of  Hon. 
Nathan  and  Paulina  Bass  (Cony)  Weston,  who  was  b.  Feb.  24, 
1815;  Bowd.  C.  1834;  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1S37;  ord.  Dea. 
1S51 ;  D.D.  Bowd.    Mary  d.  Aug.  4,  1882. 


(t?)    SAMUEL    BRIDGE.  69 

1.  William  North,  d.  young. 

2.  George  Melville. 

3.  Duane. 

4.  Henry  Livingston,  d.  young. 

5.  Mary  Xorth,  m.  Francis  Baynes,  son  of  Thomas  and  Anne  El- 

vira (Reed)  Austin. 

2.  Hannah  Elizabeth,  b. 

56.  3.  James  (13). 

57.  4.  Horatio  (14). 

58.  5.  William  (15). 

59.  C.  Mary,  b.  May  2.  1808;  m.  June  6,  1S2S,  Rufus  Chandler,  son  of  Solo- 

mon and  Eliza  Putnam  (Chandler)  Vose.  who  was  b.  in  Xorthfield, 
Mass.,  in  1798,  and  d.  in  Augusta,  Me.,  1842.  Mary  "was  an 
amiable  woman,  of  great  personal  beauty."     She  d.  Jan.  27,  1852. 

1.  George  Howe,  b.  March  19,  1829  ;  m.  in  1857,  Kate  La  Rose  of 

California.     He  lives  in  San  Lorenzo,  California. 

1.  Mary  Bridge,  b.  in  1858;  m.  Rev.  Alvin  Baker. 

2.  Alice,  b.  in  1859 ;  m.  Edmond  Hathaway. 

3.  Rufus  Chandler,  b.  in  1865. 

4.  (  George  Howe.  b.  in  1^7U. 
5.1  Bertha,  b.  in  1870. 

6.  Frank,  b.  in  1874. 

7.  Charles  K.,  b.  in  1878. 

2.  Eliza  Putnam,  b.  Feb.   6,  1832 ;  m.  Sept.  1,  1855,  Daniel,  son  of 

Rev.  Daniel  Stone  of  Augusta.     Xo  children. 

3.  Rufus  Chandler,  b.  Xov.,  1833 :  lives  in  Xew  Mexico ;  m.  in  1878, 

Margaret  Saunders  of  California. 

4.  Mary  Bridge,  b.  March  29,  1855;  m.  in  1873,  Charles  H.  Kimball 

of  California.     Xo  children. 

5.  Hannah  Bridge,  b.  May  5,  1837;  m.  in  1877,  Thomas  Wales  Mor- 

gan Draper  of  Xew  York. 

6.  Horatio,  b.  Jan.  29,  1840;  d.  in  Calcutta  in  1866. 

60.  7.  Hannah,  b.  Sept.  3,  1810;  m.  Sept.,  1S32,  as  his  second  wife,  Hon. 

Daniel,  son  of  Seth  and  Zilpha  (Ingraham)  Williams,  who  d.  May. 
1878. 

1.  Abby,  June  18,  1834;  m.,  as  his  second  wife,  Charles  Allen,  son  of 
Allen  and  Sybil  Angier  (Farnum)  Lombard,  who  d. ;  and  Abby 
m.,  II.,  Manton  Marble. 

1.  Kate  Gliddon  Lombard. 

(7)  Samuel  Bridge  (19.  G),  b.  in  Dresden,  Xov.  14,  1778;  m. 
Jan.  17,  1803.  Margaret,  dau.  of  Nathaniel  and  Margaret  (Morton) 
Paine.     She  was  a   niece  of  Thomas  K.  Jones,   a  well-known  auc- 


70  SIXTH   GENERATION. 

tioneer  in  Boston,  with  whom  Samuel  had  had  his  early  training  for 
business.     She  was  b.  May  4,  1782,  and  d.  June  15,  1836. 

When  little  more  than  twent\"-three  years  of  age,  he  became  junior 
partner  with  Robert  G.  Shaw,  in  the  firm  of  Shaw,  Barker,  and 
Bridge.  For  years  he  had  already  been  in  Mr.  Shaw's  employment. 
The  firm  was  very  popular,  doing  a  large  auction  and  commission 
business.  In  a  few  years  Mr.  Shaw  withdrew,  and  finally  the  part- 
nership of  Barker  and  Bridge  was  dissolved. 

In  1811,  Mr.  Bridge  removed  with  his  family  to  Dresden.  From 
this  time,  he  gave  himself,  in  his  leisure,  to  the  service  of  his  native 
town,  as  Selectman,  as  Overseer  of  the  poor,  and  as  a  good  citizen 
and  benevolent  man.  "  Respected  for  his  talents  and  beloved  for  his 
virtues,"  he  d.  Dec.  12,  1821. 

61.  1.  Mary  Helen,  b.  July  17, 1804.    Amiable  and  benevolent.     An  invalid, 

she  sought  to  recover  her  health  by  distant  travel,  especially  among 
the  islands  of  the  Pacific.     She  d.  in  Waltham,  Aug.  7,  1846. 

62.  2.  Edmund  Frederick,  b.  June  14,  1805 ;  lost  on  the  Atlantic  coast,  Oct. 

1820. 

63.  3.  Thomas  Kilby  Jones,  b.  Nov.  30,  1S07  ;  d.  April  28,  1808. 

64.  4.  Samuel  James,  b.  June  1,  1809 ;  a  merchant ;    appointed   Principal 

Appraiser  in  the  Custom  House  in  Boston  in  1841.  After  twelve 
and  a  half  years'  service  there,  he  was  made  Appraiser-General  of 
the  Pacific  coast,  with  large  duties  and  responsibilities,  and  con- 
tinued to  serve  seventeen  and  one-half  years,  till  the  office  was 
abolished  in  1862.  His  important  work  included  the  supervision 
of  all  the  customs  on  the  Pacific  coast  in  California,  Oregon,  and 
Washington  Territory.  Since  his  retirement,  he  has  spent  his 
summers  at  the  old  home  in  Dresden,  and  devoted  the  rest  of  the 
year  to  varied  and  extensive  travelling  in  all  parts  of  the  world. 
He  received  the  honorary  degree  of  A.M.  from  Harvard  College  in 
1880. 

65.  5.  Capt.  Thomas  Kilby  Jones,  b.  Nov.  16,  1811,  shipmaster;  lost  at  sea, 

Dec,  1842. 

66.  6.  Nathan  William  (16). 

67.  7.  Jane  Paine,  b.  at  Dresden,  Sept.  8,  1817. 

(8)  Nathan  Bridge  (27.  5),  b.  May  6,  1770;  m.  Feb.  12,  1806, 
in  Herkimer,  N.  Y.,  Nancy,  dau.  of  Daniel  and  Louisa  (Groat) 
Morse.  Nathan  was  a  successful  merchant  in  the  city  of  New 
York.  He  d.  in  Brooklyn,  March  30,  1856.  Nancy  was  b.  Sept. 
16,  1782;  d.  March  6,  1859. 

68.  1.  William  Morse,  b.  Sept.  21,  1807;  d.  Nov.  25,  1829. 

69.  2.  Edward  (17). 


((?)  SAMUEL   BRIDGE.  71 

70.  3.  George,  b.  Oct.  3,  1812;  d.  April  9,  1S64. 

71.  4.  Charles,  b.  1816;  U.  C. ;  a  lawyer;  d.  L874. 

72.  5.  Anne,  b.  Nov.  G,  1819;  d.  Dec.  29,  1863.     Unmarried. 

(9)  Franklin  Bridge  of  Brunswick  (29.  7).  b.  in  Rutland,  Mass., 
March  17,  1778;  m.  May  29,  1808,  Elizabeth  S.,  dan.  of  Caleb  and 
Hannah  Curtis  of  Dixtield,  Me.  She  was  b.  Feb.  22,  1790.  He 
served  in  the  War  of  1812,  and  d.  Feb.  11,  1869. 

73.  1.  Emily,  b.  Nov.  23,  1809;  m.  Nov.  30,  1836,  William,  son  of  Capt. 

David  and  Anne  (Morey)  Spear,     lie  d.  in  1874. 

1.  William  Franklin,  b.  Dec.  25,  1837;  d.  Aug.  1,  1842. 

2.  David  Dana.  b.  May  29,  1839;  M.D.  Berkshire  Medical  School, 

1867  ;  m.,  I.,  Cornie  Maynard,  dau.  of  David  and  Caroline  F. 
Haynes,  who  d.  Feb.  5,  1864;  m.,  II.,  June  1,  1S65,  Julia  Anne, 
dau.  of  Lyman  and  Mary  Jane  Hatch.     Five  children. 

3.  George  Franklin,  b.  Feb.  25,  1845 ;  d.  young. 

74.  2.  Hannah  Curtis,  b.  Aug.  18,  1816;  m.  Nov.  23,  1864,  Benjamin,  son  of 

Jesse  and  Anne  (Bentley)  Lord. 

75.  3.  Mary  Porter,  b.  Nov.  12,  1818;  m.  April  28,  1S45,  Edward  Cross,  son 

of  James  and  Anne  (Cross)  Lowe,  of  Lancashire,  Eng.,  who  was 
b.  Feb.  20,  1820.     Xow  living  at  Waterville. 

1.  Franklin,  b.  Jan.   12,  1846  ;  m.  Feb.  13,   1867,  Xancy  A.,  dau.  of 

Dennis  and  Xancy  (Joslyn)  Lowell.  He  served  in  the  Rebel- 
lion.     An  engineer,  now  living  at  Fort  Scott,  Kansas. 

1.  Grace  Mary,  b.  Sept,  12,  1871. 

2.  James,  b.  Aug.  21,  1851 ;  m.  Laura  E.,  dau.  of  James  and  Martha 

(Harrington)  Drummond. 

1.  Alice  Freeman,  b.  April  29,  187S. 

3.  Anne  Jane,  b.  Jan.  21,  1854;  m.,  I.,  Xov.  5,  1874,  Albert  Freeman, 

son  of  Rev.  Jeremiah  Dearborn  and  Abby  (Freeman)  Tilton, 
who  d.  in  Waterville,  Feb.  28,  1876.  An  estimable  young  man, 
to  whom  the  honor,  very  unusual  to  one  so  young,  was  paid,  of 
a  suspension  in  the  village  of  all  business  during  his  funeral. 
II.,  m.  July  8,  1881,  Francis  Augustus,  son  of  Lieut.  Henry  and 
Anne  Nora  Moore. 

1.  Rebecca,  b.  Aug.  8,  1882. 

4.  Hannah  Elizabeth,  b.  June  13,  1856;  m.  Jan.  8,  1877,  James   M.. 

son  of  James  and  Louisa  (Saunders)  Wall. 

1.  Anna  Louisa,  b.  Dec.  4.  ls?^. 

2.  James  Edward,  b.  Feb.  IS,  1881. 

5.  Edward  Ireland,  b.  Feb.  23,  1858. 


72  SIXTH   GENERATION. 

76.  4.  Elizabeth,  in.,  L,  Oct.  3,  1854,  Capt.  William,  son  of  Robert  Strout  of 

Brunswick.     He  d.  in  1858.     II.,  Turner  C.  Harrington. 

1.  George   F.  Strout,  b.  April  26,  1857;   m.  Oct.   18,  1880,  Ada  B 

Groves,  and  d.  Nov.  10,  1881. 

2.  Frederick  Melvin,  b.  July  13,  1858;  m.  Nov.  15,  1882,  Maria,  dau. 

of  Daniel  and  Minnie  Sears  of  Portland. 

77.  5.  William  Curtis  (18). 

78.  6.  Charlotte,  m.  June  18,  1851,  John  Bartlett  Bret. 

1.  Andrew  Bartlett,  b.  April  29 ;  d.  Aug.  23,  1856. 

79.  7.  Tryphonia,  d.  unmarried. 

(10)  Nathan  Bridge  (41.  2),  b.  April  18,  1782;  m.  Elizabeth, 
dau.  of  Josiah  and  Elizabeth  (Call)  Bartlett.  He  was  an  eminent 
merchant  of  Boston.     He  d.  at  Charlestown,  Sept.  18,  1830. 

80.  1.  Alice,  b.  Sept.  30,  1805 ;  d.  Aug.  22,  1825. 

81.  2.  Elizabeth  Bartlett,  b.  March  8,  1807 ;  m.  May  8,  1827,  Charles  Chapin 

of  Springfield ;  H.  C.  1823,  M.D.     Elizabeth  d.  March  9,  1828. 

1.  Elizabeth  Alice,  b.  Feb.  26,  1828;  m.  William  Clark  of  Brattle- 
borough.     Elizabeth  d.  Oct.,  1876. 

1.  Oliver. 

2.  Alice. 

3.  William. 

82.  3.  Julia,  b.  Nov.  23,  1808;  d.  Feb.  2,  1809. 

83.  4.  Francis  Alexander,  b.  Feb.  3,  1811 ;  d.  at  Louisville,  Oct.  16,  1830. 

84.  5.  Julianna  Baker,  b.  Oct.  29,  1813  ;  d.  Dec.  1,  1816. 

85.  6.  Susan,  b.  June  12,  1816;  m.  Feb.  27,  1834,  Charles  Thomas  Jackson, 

M.D.  of  Plymouth,  Grad.  at  Harvard  Med.  School,  1329,  A.A.S. 
An  eminent  physician,  whose  discovery  of  the  use  and  application 
of  ether  as  a  remedy  for  pain  in  medical  and  surgical  practice  will 
perpetuate  his  name.     He  d.  Aug.  28,  1880. 

1.  Alice  Bridge,  b.  Feb.  25,  1835;  m.  June  6,  1867,  Col.  William,  son 

of  Rev.  William  and  Malvina  (Stone)  Arthur,  Paymaster  U.  S.  A. 
and  brother  of  President  Chester  A.  Arthur.  They  have  had 
four  children. 

2.  Elizabeth  Bartlett,  b.  April   2,  1837  ;   m.    Nov.  6,   1S62,  William 

Barber,  Esq.,  a  well-known  citizen  of  San  Francisco.  They  have 
had  four  children. 

3.  Susan  Frances,  b.  Aug.  15,  1839;  d.  July  7,  1841. 
A.  Charles  Francis,  b.  Jan.  2,  1844. 

5.  John  Cotton,  b.  Oct.  8,  1845 ;  m.  Louise  Sewell,  dau.  of  Charles  J. 

'    Hubbard  of  Boston. 
0.  Henry  Bartlett.  b.  Oct.  28,  1848;  d.  June  9,  1349. 


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7.  Lucy  Cotton,  b.  April  30,  1850;  m.  April  16,  1877,  Capt.  James 

Spencer,  U.S.A.     Two  children. 

8.  Eugenia  Louise,  b.  Oct.  17,   1852;    m.  Sept.  20,   1877,   Frederick 

Dodge  of  Cambridge.     Two  daughters. 

9.  Oscar  Roland,  b.  May  10,  1854. 
10.  Lidian  Emerson,  b.  May  2,  1859. 

(11)  Samuel  Bridge  (51.8),  b.  Dec.  12,  179G  ;  m.  June  15,  183G, 
Hannah  Maria,  dau.  of  Nehemiah  and  Nancy  (Stearns)  Wellington 
of  Lexington.  He  d.  Jan.  C,  1874.  Hannah  was  b.  Nov.  17,  1809. 
See  Bond,  p.  633. 

86.  1.  Caroline  Eliza,  b.  June  3,  1S37 ;  m.  Sept.  2,  1858,  George  Otis  Davis. 

1.  Frederick  Gardner,  b.  Aug.  8,  1859. 

2.  Charles  Bridge,  b.  Jan.  2,  1861 ;  H.  C.  1884. 

3.  Henry  Wellington,  b.  Feb.  28,  1863. 

87.  2.  Jonas  Francis,  b.  June  7,  1839 ;  d.  Sept.  4,  1845. 

88.  3.  Amelia  Maria,  b.  Dec.  23,  1841 ;  d.  Aug.  24,  1842. 

89.  4.  James  Bowman,  b.  Feb.  26 ;  d.  April  13,  1843. 

90.  5.  Anna  Maria,   b.  Sept.  8,   1846;   m.  Nov.  16,   1865,  George   Lyman 

Stratton. 

1.  Florence  Gardner,  b.  Oct.  16,  1868. 

2.  George  Bridge,  b.  Sept.  19,  1876. 

SEVENTH    GENERATION. 

(12)  Edmund  Theodore  Bridge  (54.  1),  b.  Dec.  6,  1799  ;  Bowd.  C. 
1818;  studied  law;  m.  Sept.  25,  1822,  Anne  Frazier,  dau.  of  Cyrus 
and  Hannah  (Stowe)  King  of  Saco.     He  d.  Feb.  17,  1854. 

91.  1.  AVilliam  King,  b.  Feb.  8,  1824,  U.S.N.  ;  lost  at  sea. 

92.  2.  Hannah  Xorth,  b.  May  20,  1826. 

93.  3.  James,  b.  Aug.  27,  1828;  d.  Dec.  30,  1853.     A  lawyer. 

94.  4.  Anne  Frazier  King,  b.  Sept.  22,  1830.     Of  Geneva.     Teacher. 

95.  5.  Octavia  Dearborne,  b.  Aug.  14,  1832  ;  d.  Sept.  24,  1852. 

96.  6.  Clara  Nourse,  b.  Sept.  9,  1834;  d.  Feb.  6,  1860. 

97.  7.  William  Augustus  Steuben  North,  b.  Aug.  15,  1839 ;  d.  Aug.  15,  1842. 

(13)  James  Bridge  (56.3),  b.  July  17,  1804;  in  business  in 
Augusta;  m.  Sept.  5,  1828,  Sarah  Bowdoin,  dau.  of  Hon.  Paul  and 
Sarah  Lowell  (Cony)  Williams.     See  North's  Augusta. 

98.  1.  Susan  Williams,  b.  Nov.  8,  1830;  m.  June  8,  1853,  Edward  Henry 

Daveis  of  Portland.     Bowd.  Col.  1838;  LL.B.,  Camb. 


74  SEVENTH   GENERATION. 

1.  Mary  Gilman,  b.  Aug.  13,  1855. 

2.  Mabel  Stuart,  b.  May  3,  1859. 

99.  2.  Margaret  North,  b.  Feb.  1, 1832  ;  m.  June  18,  1857,  James  Rufus,  son 
of  Greenwood  Cushiug  and  Lucy  H.  (Palmer)  Child  of  Augusta. 
He  was  b.  Oct.  7,  1825 ;  d.  in  Albany,  Ga.,  Nov.  1,  1873. 

1.  Helen  Greenwood,  b.  March  18,  185S. 

2.  Anne  dishing,  b.  July  6,  1859. 

3.  Mary  Gore,  b.  June  30,  1869. 

100.  3.  Sarah  Cony,  b.  May  6,  1834. 

101.  4.  James  (19). 

102.  5.  Paulina  Jones,  b.  Sept.  24,  1839. 

103.  6.  Ruel  Williams,  b.  Sept.  18,  1841 ;  graduated  at  Albany  Law  School; 

m.  July  6,  1870,  Susan  Allison ;  a  lawyer  in  extensive  practice  ; 
lives  in  Chicago. 

104.  7.  Horatio,  b.  Feb.  8,  1844 ;  Hob.  C.  1867 ;  M.D.  Camb. 

105.  8.  Joseph   Hartwell,   b.  Dec.  30,   1847 ;   S.B.  Camb.  1869 ;   A.  M.  B. 

1870. 

(14)  Horatio  Bridge  (57.4),  b.  April  8,  1806;  Bowd.  C.  1825; 
admitted  to  Bar,  1828;  Paymaster,  U.S.N.,  1838;  Paymaster- 
General,  1854;  author  of  "Journal  of  an  African  Cruiser";  m. 
June  10,  1846,  Charlotte,  dau.  of  Josiah  and  Priscilla  (Waterman) 
Marshall. 

106.  1.  Marian,  b.  Oct.  3,  1851 ;  d.  March  29,  1855. 

(15)  William  Bridge  (58.  5),  b.  May  2,  1808  ;  he  was  formerly  a 
merchant  in  Augusta,  Me.  ;  afterwards,  for  many  years,  in  the  Cus- 
tom House  in  Boston;  m.  Dec.  23,  1839,  Mrs.  Eliza  Jane  Williams, 
who  was  dau.  of  George  W.  and  Anne  (Ames)  Perkins,  and  was  b. 
in  Bridgewater,  Mass.,  Aug.  1,  1807. 

107.  1.  Helen  Williams,  b.  Oct.  5,  1842  ;  m.  June  21,  1871,  Rev.  Robert,  son 

of  Arthur  and  Mary  (Hopkins)  Ritchie  of  Philadelphia. 

1.  Mary  Helen,  b.  April  11,  1872. 

108.  2.  Lucy  Perkins,  b.  Oct,  7,  1844. 

109.  3.  Henry  Saunders,  b.  May  5,  1846. 

110.  4.  Edward  Williams  (20). 

(16)  Nathan  William  Bridge  (66.  6),  b.  June  28,  1814;  m.  Oct. 
1,  1842,  Mary  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Moses  and  Harriet  (Carter)  Piper. 
He  was  a  prominent  shipbroker  in  Boston  ;  lately  retired.  The  firm 
of  which  he  was  the  head  "  has  cleared  a  larger  number  of  vessels  at 


(d)   SAMUEL   BRIDGE.  75 

the  Boston  Custom  House  than  any  other  in  the  city."  Mr.  Bridge 
has  also  been  a  successful  merchant,  doing  a  very  large  business  in 
trade  with  Cuba.  He  is  still  k'  one  of  the  largest  ship-owners  of  his 
native  city." 

111.  1.  Mary  Helen,  b.  Aug.  5,  1813  ;  d.  Feb.  25,  1844. 

112.  2.  Alice  Elizabeth,  b.  Dec.  10,  1844  ;  d.  May  5,  1846. 

113.  3.  Edmund,  b.  Feb.  14,  1847. 

114.  4.  Anna  Louisa,  b.  Jan.  27,  1848;  d.  Aug.  1,  1871. 

115.  5.  Samuel  James,  b.  May  10,  1854;  d.  May  5,  1856. 

116.  6.  Frederick  William,  b.  Oct.  9,  1862. 

(17)  Edward  Bridge  (69.2),  b.  1809;  merchant  in  New  York; 
m.  Nov.  30,  1844,  Harriet,  dau.  of  David  and  Susan  (Strong) 
Baker  of  New  York,  who  d.  Sept.  1,  1858,  aet.  40. 

117.  1.  Edward  William,  b.  1857;  educated  at  the  Naval  School  at  Annapo- 

lis;   Lieut,  at  Navy  Yard,  Brooklyn;  m.  Clara,  dau.  of  Philip 
Kissam. 

118.  2.  Frederick  (21). 

119.  3.  Julia,  b.  Feb.  6,  1853;  m.  Clarence,  son  of  Samuel  Waldron  and 

Maria  Theodosia  (Shannard)  Moore. 

1.  Julia  Louise,  b.  Nov.  29,  1880. 

120.  4.  William,  b.  May  15,  1854. 

(18)  William  Curtis  Bridge  (77.5),  b.  Aug.  17,  1822;  m.  Aug. 
18,  1844,  Sarah  W.,  dau.  of  Oliver  and  Abigail  (Field)  Conant  of 
Topsham. 

121.  1.  William  EL,  b.  Feb.  22,  1845;  d.  Aug.  14,  1848. 

122.  2.  Franklin  (22). 

123.  3.  Edward  Lowe,  b.  Dec.  17,  1849 ;  d.  Feb.  26,  1875. 

124.  4.  Charlotte  A.,  b.  Dec.  6,  1851 ;  m.  Joseph  W.  Foster,  who  d.  1873. 

No  children. 

125.  5.  Oliver  C.  (23). 

126.  6.  Andrew  William  (24). 

127.  7.  Charles  A.,  b.  Oct.  17,  1862. 


76  EIGHTH    GENERATION. 

EIGHTH    GENERATION. 

(19)  James  Bridge  (101.4),  b.  April  5,  1837;  m.  July  2,  1872, 
Miriam  Augusta,  dau.  of  Alexander  Weldon  aud  Mary  Anne  (Mc- 
Daniel)  Mitchell,  who  was  b.  Feb.  8,  1851. 

128.  1.  James  Weldon,  b.  Xov.  24,  1873. 

129.  2.  Miriam  Augusta,  b.  Dec.  2,  1874 ;  d.  June  15,  1875. 

130.  3.  Mary  Brown,  b.  Aug.  31,  1876. 
181.  4.  Edmund,  b.  April  16,  1S79. 

132.  5.  James,  b.  Sept.  11,  1880 ;  d.  Aug.  9,  1881. 

133.  6.  Pauline,  b.  March  18,  1882 ;  d.  May  30,  18S2. 

(20)  Edward  Williams  (110.4),  b.  Dec.  6,  1849;  m.  April  25, 
1883,  Anne  Christ,  dau.  of  William  F.  and  Elizabeth  (Christ)  Kitchen 
of  Shamokin,  Penn.  ;  lives  at  Caperton,  W.  Virginia. 

134.  1.  Samuel  Haas,  b.  Jan.  25,  1884. 

(21)  Frederick  Bridge  (118.2),  b.  June,  1849  ;  m.  Mary,  dau.  of 
Dr.  George  Huntington  of  East  Hampton. 

135.  1.  Harriet  Baker,  b.  Jan.,  1872. 

136.  2.  Elizabeth,  b.  March,  1874. 

137.  3.  Julia,  b.  April,  1876. 

138.  4.  Frederick  William,  b.  April,  1878. 

139.  5.  Florence  Huntington,  b.  July,  1880. 

(22)  Franklin  Bridge  (122.2),  b.  Feb.  26,  1847;  a  soldier  in  the 
late  war;  m.  Dec.  21,  1868,  Ellen,  dau.  of  James  and  Catharine 
McNear,  and  d.  Aug.  19,  1873. 

140.  1.  Franklin,  b.  Dec.  24,  1S70. 

141.  2.  William  J.,  b.  Jan.  13,  1S74;  d.  Aug.  29,  1878. 

(23)  Oliver  C.  Bridge  (125.  5),  b.  Dec.  4,  1853;  artist;  m. 
Hannah,  dau.  of  Ephraim  and  Hannah  Gammon,  who  was  b.  June 
28,  1851,  in  Hartford,  Me. 

142.  1.  Edward  Warren,  b.  Jan.  23,  1876. 

143.  2.  Charlotte  Mabel,  b.  Dec.  17,  1881. 

(24)  Andrew  William  Bridge  (126.6),  b.  Oct.  26,  1856;  m. 
March  2,  1878,  Mary  Edna,  dau.  of  William  and  Lucinda  Adams. 

144.  1.  Charlotte  May,  b.  Jan.  2,  1879  ;  d.  Feb.  28,  1879. 

145.  2.  Andrew  William,  b.  Xov.  15,  18S0 ;  d.  March  7,  1881. 


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APPENDIX   I. 


THE    GARFIELD    FAMILY. 

The  line  of  President  Garfield's  descent  from  Elizabeth  (Bridge) 
Garfield  (see  Dea.  John  Bridge,  10.7)  is  as  follows  :  — 

I.  Capt.  Benjamin  Garfield  was  the  third  son  and  fourth  child  of 
Edward  and  Rebecca  Garfield.  Edward  was  the  son  of  Edward  Gar- 
field, who  was  b.  in  England  in  1575.  He  came  to  this  country  with 
his  son  Edward,  in  cornpan}-,  probably,  with  Winthrop,  in  1630. 
The  two  Edwards  settled  in  Watertown,  where  the  younger  became 
Freeman  in  1635,  was  Selectman  in  1638,  and  at  least  twice  after. 
Benjamin  was  b.  in  1643.  He  was  a  helpful  and  respected  citizen  of 
his  native  town,  serving  her  at  least  nine  times  as  her  Representative, 
and  filling  various  other  town  offices.  Elizabeth  Bridge  was  his  sec- 
ond  wife,  and  mother  of  sis  of  his  eight  children. 

II.  Their  oldest  son  was  Lieut.  Thomas  of  Weston,  b.  Dec.  12, 
1680.  He  m.  Jan.  10,  1707,  Merc}',  dau.  of  Joshua  and  Elizabeth 
(Flagg)  Bigelow.  See  Bond,  Bigelow  and  Flagg,  pp.  31  and  220. 
Mercy  was  b.  in  1686,  and  d.  Feb.  28,  1745.  Thomas  d.  Feb.  4, 
1752. 

III.  Their  oldest  son  was  Thomas,  b.  Feb.,  1713  ;  d.  Jan.  3,  1774  ; 
m.  Oct.  21,  1742,  Rebecca,  dau.  of  Dea.  Samuel  and  Rebecca  John- 
son of  Lunenburg,  who  was  b.  Nov.  2,  1719,  and  d.  Feb.  3,  1763. 

P7.  Their  oldest  son  was  Solomon,  who  was  b.  July  18,  1743  ;  m. 
Aug.  22,  1769,  Sarah  Stimpson  of  Sudbury,  and  settled  in  West- 
minster. They  afterwards  removed  to  Cherry  Valley,  Otsego  County, 
New  York. 

V.  Their  oldest  son  Thomas,  b.  in  1775,  m.  Asenath  Hill  of 
Sharon,  N.Y. 

VI.  They  had  Abram,  b.  Dec.  28,  1799,  their  third  child.  Abram 
m.  Eliza,  dau.  of  James  and  Mehitable  (Ingals)  Ballou.  She  was 
fifth  in  descent  from  Maturin  Ballou,  a  Huguenot,  who,  at  the  Revo- 
cation of  the  Edict  of  Nantes,  sought  refuge  in  Cumberland,  R.I. 
Her  father  removed  his  family  from  Richmond,  N.H.,  to  Worcester 
in  Otsego  County.  £  .-. 


78  THE    GARFIELD   FAMILY. 

VII.  James  Abram  Garfield  was  b.  to  Abram  and  Eliza  (Ballou) 
Garfield,  Nov.  19,  1831 ;  AYilliams  Col.  1856  ;  LL.D.  ;  admitted  to  the 
Bar,  1861 ;  member  of  Ohio  Senate,  1860,  1861  ;  Representative  to 
Congress  from  1863  to  1880  ;  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  Ohio  Volunteers, 
Forty-Second  Regiment,  Sept.  19,  1861 ;  Colonel  of  Ohio  Volunteers, 
Forty-Second  Regiment,  Nov.  27,  1861 ;  Brigadier-General,  Jan.  11, 
1862;  Major-General,  Sept.  19,  1862;  chosen  to  U.S.  Senate,  1880; 
President  United  States,  1881  ;  d.  Sept.  19,  1881. 

He  m.  Nov.  11,  1838,  Lucretia,  dau.  of  Zebulon  and  Arabella 
(Mason)  Rudolph. 

1.  Eliza  Arabella,  b.  July  3,  1860  ;  d.  Dec.  1,  1863. 

2.  Henry  Augustus,  b.  Oct.  11,  1863. 

3.  James  Rudolph,  b.  Oct.  17,  1865. 

4.  Mollie,  b.  Jan.  16,  1867. 

5.  Irwin  McDowell,  b.  Aug.  3,  187-0. 

6.  Abram,  b.  Nov.  21,  1872. 

7.  Edward,  b.  Dec.  26,  1874;  d.  Oct.  25,  1876. 


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APPENDIX   II. 


THE    LITHGOW    FAMILY. 

(1)  Col.  William  Lithgow,  the  father  of  the  husband  of  Martha 
(Bridge)  Lithgow,  see  (d)  Samuel  Bridge,  15.  2,  was  the  sou  of 
Robert  Lithgow  of  Boston. 

Robert  was  a  Scotchmau,  who  emigrated  from  Ireland,  whither  his 
ancestors  had  fled  at  the  time  of  the  Rebellion.  He  probably  came 
to  this  country  in  one  of  the  ships  chartered  b}-  Robert  Temple,  with 
his  son  William,  then  about  three  years  of  age.  He  went  from  Bos- 
ton, perhaps,  to  Temple's  Settlement,  near  Merrymeeting  Bay,  at  the 
mouth  of  the  Kennebec. 

William  was  b.  circa  1715.  He  was  early  in  command  at  Fort 
Richmond  on  the  Kennebec.  In  Sept.,  1754,  Fort  Halifax  was  estab- 
lished near  the  junction  of  the  Sebasticot  and  Kennebec  Rivers. 
Capt.  Lithgow  was  put  in  command  of  it.  He  had  at  that  time, 
he  says,  been  in  the  service  for  twenty  years.  He  was  therefore 
attached  to  the  Garrison  of  St.  George's  Fort  in  1734,  set.  19. 

At  the  organization  of  Lincoln  County  in  1760,  he  was  made  a 
Judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas.  This  office  he  continued  to 
hold  through  the  Revolutionary  period. 

He  was  a  cultivated  and  courteous  gentleman,  as  well  as  an  ener- 
getic and  faithful  officer.  He  d.  Dec.  20,  1798.  See  North's  Au- 
gusta, and  especially  the  interesting  memorial  of  him  in  the  eighth 
volume  of  the  Collections  of  the  Maine  Historical  Society- ,  Art.  V., 
4i  Fort  Halifax." 

He  m.  before  174G,  Sarah,  dau.  of  Col.  Arthur  Noble  of  George- 
town, near  the  mouth  of  the  Kennebec.     Sarah  was  b.  in  1725. 

Col.  Noble  is  said  to  have  been  b.  in  Enniskillen,  Ulster,  Ireland. 
He  came  to  America,  perhaps  with,  or  certainly  not  many  years 
after,  Robert  Lithgow.  He  was  commissioned  Lieutenant-Colonel 
of  Col.  Waldo's  Regiment  to  be  raised  for  the  expedition  to  reduce 
Louisburg.  That  fort  was  the  strongest  on  our  continent.  The 
French  cruisers,  whom  it  protected,  were  a  sad  annoyance  to  our 
fishing  vessels. 


80  THE   L1THGOW   FAMILY. 

Within  fifty-six  days,  the  Provinces  raised  forty-three  hundred 
men  for  the  reduction.  Waldo  was  made  Brigadier-General,  and 
gave  about  a  fourth  of  his  command  in  charge  to  Col.  Noble. 

The  fall  of  Louisburg,  June  17,  1745,  excited  the  fears  of  the 
French  lest  they  should  lose  all  Canada.  They  accordingly  sent  out 
from  Brest,  in  the  following  year,  the  most  powerful  fleet  that  had 
been  raised  for  North  America.  The}*  intended  with  this  fleet  to 
retake  Louisburg,  then  to  capture  Annapolis,  to  destroy  Boston,  and 
to  lay  waste  as  much  as  possible  of  the  coast  as  it  proceeded  to  the 
West  Indies.  But  a  tedious  voyage  of  ninety  days,  a  severe  storm 
that  destroyed  many  a  ship,  sickness,  the  lateness  of  the  season,  the 
death  of  the  commander,  followed  by  that  of  the  vice-admiral,  all 
conspired  to  force  them  to  give  up  their  plan  of  recapture. 

In  Nov.,  1746,  Gov.  Shirley  of  Massachusetts,  who  had  in  charge 
the  management  of  Nova  Scotia,  was  induced  to  send  out  a  thousand 
New  England  troops  to  quarter  in  Acadia,  and  so  to  harass  the  in- 
habitants that  they  should  find  it  convenient,  taking  their  families 
with  them,  to  abandon  the  Province.  This  was  nine  years  before  the 
expulsion  which  is  celebrated  by  Mr.  Longfellow  in  his  Evangeline. 

That  Col.  Noble  had  done  yeoman  service  in  the  taking  of  Louis- 
burg in  the  previous  year  is  shown  otherwise,  and  by  his  appointment 
to  lead  this  expedition  in  the  heart  of  winter,  for  it  was  a  peculiarly 
laborious  and  perilous  enterprise. 

He  sailed  in  December,  and  conducted  his  little  army  by  land, 
heroically  and  wisely,  over  ridges  and  through  deep  snows,  along  the 
border  of  the  Bay  of  Fuudy  and  of  the  basin  of  Minas,  one  hundred 
and  fifty  miles  up  from  the  entrance  of  the  ba}\  The  tides  here  are 
prodigious.  Spring  tides  are  of  seventy  feet  height.  "With  the 
large  volume  of  water  from  nineteen  rivers,  and  the  monstrous  fall 
of  the  tide,  the  current  at  half  tide  is  fearful.  The  great  fall  loosens 
any  ice  formed  at  the  mouth  of  the  rivers,  and  these  ice  floes  grow 
continually  heavier  from  the  excessive  cold,  as  they  drive  up  and 
down  the  bay,  for,  by  the  time  the  wind  has  driven  them  down  to  the 
entrance  of  the  ocean,  the  tide  bears  them  back  again."  So  no 
enemy  was  to  be  feared  by  sea,  nor  in  their  rear. 

And  the  appearance  of  a  foe  b}'  land  from  the  North  and  Prince 
Edward's  Island,  through  snow  two  or  three  feet  deep  on  the  level 
for  more  than  a  hundred  miles,  seemed  as  little  to  be  feared,  espe- 
cially at  the  time  of  a  driving  storm  that  had  lasted  thirty  hours. 

But  the  attack  came  in  this  latter  way,  by  land,  and  from  Prince 
Edward's  Island.  On  Jan.  31,  1747,  Col.  Noble  was  at  Grand  Pr6 
with  a  detachment  of  five  hundred  men.    At  two  o'clock  in  the  morn- 


THE   LITHGOW   FAMILY.  81 

iug,  the  officers'  quarters  were  nearly  all  surrounded  at  the  same 
time,  the  troops  being  quartered  in  houses  scattered  over  a  space  of 
a  mile  and  a  quarter's  length.  Seventy  were  killed,  sixty  taken 
prisoners.  Several  were  wounded.  Noble's  quarters  were  the  first 
attacked.  He  had  received  two  wounds,  but,  after  that,  he  returned 
three  times  the  enemy's  fire,  in  his  shirt,  before  he  was  shot  dead. 
Bravery  and  self-possession  characterized  his  death,  as  fidelity  and 
resolute  perseverance  and  endurance  had  marked  his  life. 

See,  for  an  account  of  this  "heroic"  man,  ••  whose  history  has 
been  neglected,"  Collections  of  the  Maine  Historical  Society,  Vol. 
VIII.,  Art.  II. 


82  THE   LITHGOW    FAMILY. 

SECOND    GENERATION 

From  Col.  William  Lithgow. 

The  ninth  child  of  Col.  William  and  Sarah  (Noble)  Lithgow  was 
Arthur,  b.  Dec.  25,  1751.  He  m.  Martha,  dau.  of  Edmund  and 
Phoebe  (Bowman)  Bridge,  and  d.  Aug.  11,  1835.  See  Fifth  Genera- 
tion, (d)  Samuel  Bridge,  15.  2. 

Let  us  trace  their  children  and  later  descendants. 

1.  1.  Arthur  (2). 

2.  2.  William  (3). 

3.  3.  Jane  Caroline,  b.  in  Winslow,  July  16,  1795;  m.  Oct.  12,  1815,  Rich- 

ard, son  of  David  and  Elizabeth  (Miller)  Devens  of  Charlestown, 
who  d.  Oct.  28,  1847.     Jane  d.  Feb.  9,  1874. 

1.  Martha  Lithgow  Devens,  b.  Aug.  15,  1816  ;  m.  Oct.  12,  1836,  Lieut. 

Albert  E.,  son  of  Jesse  and  LNaomi  Downes,  U.S.N.,  who  was 
lost  at  sea,  March  20,  1843. 

1.  Caroline  Lithgow  Downes,  b.  Sept.  8,  1837 ;  m.  July  15,  1868, 

James,  son  of  James  and  Ella  Norah  Hoy,  U.S.N. 

2.  Maria   Gertrude   Downes,  b.  Feb.  8,   1841;   m.  Feb.  9,   1865, 

Arthur  H.  Burnham,  U.S.  Engineers. 

2.  Caroline  Devens,  b.  Jan.  30,  1818 ;  m.  Lieut.    Charles  W.,  son  of 

Commodore  Charles  and  Harriet  (Bowen)  Morris,  U.S.N.,  who 
d.  from  a  wound  received  at  Tobasco,  Nov.  1,  1846. 

1.  Caroline  Morris,  b.  Oct.  5,  1841 ;  m.  Lieut.  Arthur  L.,  son  of 

John  Lee  and  Elizabeth  West  Watson. 

2.  Charles  Morris,  b.  May  3,  1844,  Capt.  U.S.  Artillery ;  m.  Maria 

Gertrude  Missroon. 

3.  Thomas  Miller  Devens,  b.  Aug.  16,  1820.     He  is  a  merchant  and 

banker  of   Boston ;   the  American  representative  of  the  well- 
known  house  of  Gossler  &  Co.,  Hamburg. 

4.  Henry  Devens,  b.  Dec.  8,  1822,  shipmaster  and  merchant;  m.  Jan. 

4,  1865,  Cornelia,  dau.  of  William  H.  and  Co'rnelia  Fuller. 

1.  Frances  Fuller,  b.  Nov.  22,  1866. 

2.  Cornelia,  May  27,  1867. 

3.  Henry,  b.  Sept.  23,  1868. 

4.  Winnefred,  b.  Nov.  1,  1869  ;  d.  Aug.  13,  1874. 

5.  Frances  Payson  Devens,  b.  May  15,  1825 ;  m.  Lieut.  John  H.,  son 

of  John  H.  and  Caroline  Hall  Sherburne,  who  d.  Nov.  2,  1849. 

1.  Fanny  Devens  Sherburne,  b.  March  30,  1843;  m.  Oct.  14,  1869, 
William,  son  of  William  and  Mary  Wallace.  U.S.  Marine 
Corps. 


THE   LITHGOW    FAMILY.  83 

2.  Hon.  John  H.   Sherburne,  b.   Dec.   7.   1845;    educated   in  the 

Grammar  and  High  Schools  of  Boston;  entered  the  navy  at 
the  beginning  of  the  war  in  1861.  After  several  years'  ser- 
vice, including  a  three  years'  cruise  in  the  South  Pacific,  be 
began  the  study  of  law.  In  1875,  he  resigned  his  place  in 
the  navy.  He  entered  the  Law  School  at  Cambridge;  LL.B. 
H.  C.  In  1>7D  and  1880  he  represented  Boston  in  the  State 
Legislature,  and  in  1882  and  1883  served  in  the  Senate.  He 
m.  June  2,  1875,  Elizabeth  J.,  dau.  of  John  Sturgis  and  Eliza- 
beth B.  D.  Nye. 

6.  Frederick  Devens,  b.  June  25,  1827  :  d.  March  7,  1829. 

7.  Elizabeth  Miller  Devens,  b.  April  23,  1830;  d.  Sept.  16,  1832. 

8.  Edward  Fesser  Devens,  b.  Aug.  26, 1833,  shipmaster  and  merchant : 

m.  March  21,  1865,  Abby  Maria,  dau.  of  Henry  P.  and  Man- 
Elizabeth  Fairbanks,  who  d.  Feb.  10,  1879. 

1.  Richard,  b.  April  8,  1866. 

_'.  Henry  Fairbanks,  b.  Aug.  31,  1867. 

3.  Caroline  Louisa,  b.  April  6,  1872. 

9.  Helen  Devens,  b.  Nov.  22.  1835;  m.  Dec.  19,  1860,  George  G.,  son 

of  George  and  Helen  G.  Crocker. 

1.  Jane,  b.  April  9,  1863;  m.  Oct.  5,  1883,  her  cousin.  Francis  L. 

Payson.     See  p.  85  (4. 1). 

2.  Sally,' b.  May  28,  1866. 

10.  Richard,  b.  July  26,  1838.  Iu  early  life  a  merchant  in  China; 
connected  formerly  with  the  Department  of  Justice,  now  with 
the  Interior  Department. 

4.  4.  Mary  Lithgow.  b.  Dec.  5,  1797;  m.  April  12,  1819,  Charles,  son  of 
David  and  Elizabeth  (Miller)  Devens,  who  was  a  merchant  of 
Boston,  b.  March  7,  1791,  and  d.  Nov.  4,  1876.  Mary  d.  Oct.  5. 
1848. 

1.  Charles  Devens,  b.  in  Charlestown.  April  4.  1820;  H.  C.  1838, 
LL.D.:  admitted  to  the  Bar.  Aug.,  1841;  Senator  of  State  Senate 
in  1847  and  1848 ;  U.S.  Marshal  of  Massachusetts  District, 
1S49-1S53:  Major  of  Third  Battalion  of  Rifles  of  Mass.  Volun- 
teers, April  19,  1861 ;  Colonel  of  Fifteenth  Regiment  of  . 
Aug.,  1861 ;  Brigadier-General,  April  16,  1862  ;  Brevet  Major- 
General,  for  gallant  and  meritorious  service,  April  7.  1866; 
Judge  of  Superior  Court  of  Ma"..  1867;  Judge  of  Supreme 
Judicial  Court,  1873:  Attorney-General  D.S.,  1877-1881;  re- 
appointed Judge  of  Mass.  Supreme  Judicial  Court,  1881.  He 
has  delivered  numerous  occasional  orations.  Especially  note- 
worthy have  been  those  on  the  Centennial  Anniversary  of  the 
Battle  of  Bunker's  Hill,  and  at  the  Dedication  of  the  Soldier's 
Monument  in  Boston,  Sept.,  1878. 


84  THE   LITHGOW   FAMILY. 

2.  Arthur  Lithgow  Devens,   b.  April  27,  1821;  H.  C.  1840;  LL.B.; 

admitted  to  the  bar,  1842 ;  Agent  of  Otis  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany, Partner  in  the  house  of  J.  W.  Paige  &  Co.  of  Boston,  and 
Treasurer  of  Hamilton  Manufacturing  Company ;  m.  July  20, 
1852,  Agnes  Howard,  dau.  of  Abijah  and  Anne  Maria  (How- 
ard) White  of  Watertown.     He  d.  July  22,  1867. 

1.  Arthur  Lithgow  Devens,  b.  June  3,  1853;   m.  Dec.  27,   1876, 

Agnes  Russell  Elwood  of  Rochester,  N.Y. 

1.  Agnes  Dorothy,  b.  June  3,  1878. 

2.  Arthur  Lithgow,  b.  Nov.  15,  1879. 

3.  Elizabeth  Elwood,  b.  April,  1881. 

2.  Bessie,  b.  Nov.  29,  d.  Dec.  23,  1855. 

3.  Mary,  b.  May  19,  1857. 

4.  Agnes,  b.  June  17,  1865. 

3.  Mary  Devens,  b.  Aug.  23,  1823 ;  d.  Oct.  5,  1848. 

4.  Horace  Devens,  b.  May  5,  1826 ;  d.  Oct.  30,  1828. 

5.  5.  Frances  Lithgow,  b.  Dec.  8,  1800;  m.  Dec.  19,  1821,  John  Larkin, 
son  of  Philip  and  Ruth  (Larkin)  Payson;  H.  C.  1817;  Consul  at 
Messina,  1827-1845  ;  d.  in  Eastbourne,  England,  April  18,  1884. 
A  distinguished  merchant  and  serviceable  public  officer.  A  genial, 
hospitable  man. 
Beside  several  children  who  died  in  infancy,  or  quite  young,  there 
were  born  to  them  these  four  :  — 

1.  Arthur  Lithgow,  b.  Jan.   13,  1824;  m.  June  8,  1853,  Clara  Endi- 

cott,  dau.  of  George  and  Clara  (Endicott)  Peabody  of  Salem. 
Arthur  d.  Jan.  10,  1855  ;  Clara  d.  Aug.  21,  1858. 

1.  Clara  Endicott,  b.  Jan.  7,  1853. 

2.  Francis  Lithgow,  b.  March  10,  1855. 

2.  Frances  Ruth,  b.  Jan.   10,   1S26;  m.  April  10,  1844,  Rev.  James 

Grantham,  son  of  Rev.  Francis  Joseph  Faithfull  of  Hatfield, 
Herts,  Eng. 

1.  Frances  Lithgow  Payson,  b.  Feb.  5,  1845;  m.  Jan.,  1880,  Regi- 

nald, son  of  Rev.  John  and  Elizabeth  (Upton)  Fanshaw, 
Fellow  of  New  College,  and  Prof,  of  Mor.  Phil,  and  Classics 
in  Univ.  College,  Bristol. 

1.  Irene,  b.  Oct.,  18S0. 

2.  Maurice,  b.  Feb..  1883. 

2.  Emily  Mary,  b.  Jan.  15,  1846 ;  m.  May  28,  1868,  Edward,  son 

of  Rev.  Francis  and  Caroline  Storr  of  Breachley,  Kent.  Ed- 
ward is  in  the  Civil  Service  in  India. 

1.  Vernon  Faithfull,  b.  Dec,  1869. 

2.  Caroline,  b.  June,  1871. 

3.  Eleanor  Mabel,  b.  May,  1873. 

4.  Minnie,  b.  Oct.,  1875. 


THE   LITHGOW    FAMILY.  85 

3.  James  Arthur,  b.  May  -2'.).  1*17;  in.  Oct.  20,  1880,  Frances,  dau. 
of  Alexander  and  Jane  (McNeile)  Miller  of  County  Antrim, 
Ireland.  Jane  is  sister  of  the  distinguished  Hugh  McNeile, 
Dean  of  Ripon.  James  is  Rector  of  Holy  Trinity  Church,  Scar- 
borough, Yorkshire.  An  ancestor  of  Jane,  an  Englishman, 
received  a  grant  of  land  for  his  services  in  relief  of  the  town  at 
the  siege  of  Derry.     This  land  her  brother  still  holds. 

3.  Charles  Payson,  b.  in   Messina,   Sicily.    .May  2,  1835;  m.  June  5, 

1872,  Fanny,  dan.  of  Hon.  C.  C.  and  Jeannette  (Garr)  Wash- 
burne,  Gov.  of  Wisconsin.  Charles  was  in  the  Boston  Latin 
School  from  1851  to  1855;  A. I'...  Trinity  Col.,  Cambridge,  Eng., 
1861;  Second  Lieut.  Mass.  Cavalry,  1862;  severely  wounded, 
while  Aide-de-camp  to  Gen.  Devens  at  Battle  of  Cold  Harbor, 
1864 ;  brevetted  Captain  for  distinguished  gallantry  on  the 
field;  honorably  discharged  from  U.S.  Service,  May  16,  1865; 
Librarian  of  Department  of  State,  Washington,  1870;  Third 
Assistant  Secretary  of  State,  187* ;  Charge  <T Affaires  de  Den- 
mark, July,  1881. 

1.  Edith  Washburne,  b.  July  24,  1873. 

2.  Jeannette  Garr,  b.  Jan.  9,  1875. 

3.  Frances  Lithgow,  b.  Jan.  S,  1878. 

4.  Francis  Payson,  b.  May  2,  1835,  twin  of  Charles;  m.  Mary  Farqu- 

har,  dau.  of  Charles  Henry  and  Ellen  Maria  Dabney.  Francis 
is  a  merchant  of  the  house  of  Wood,  Payson  &  Colgate,  New- 
York  City. 

1.  Francis   Lithgow,  b.   Feb.    19,    1863;   m.    Oct,    5,    1883,    Jane 

(rocker.     Seep.  83  (9.1). 

2.  Mary  Dabney,  b.  Oct.  30,  1865. 

3.  Charles  Arthur,  b.  Dec.  24,  1868;  d.  Aug.  19,  1881. 

4.  William  Farquehar,  b.  Feb.  18,  1876. 

6.  6.  Frederick  Lithgow,  b.  1807;  d.  Feb.  21,  1821. 

(2)  Arthur  Lithgow  (1.  1),  b.  Dec.  25,  1789,  in  Augusta,  Me.  He 
was  for  twenty-five  years  U.S.  Consul  to  Hayti.  At  the  Spanish 
evacuation  in  1863,  he  and  his  son  William,  in  earnest  to  protect, 
even  at  the  risk  of  their  lives,  the  American  interests,  were  the  last 
to  leave  the  place.  "His  house  was  completely  perforated  by  shot 
and  shell."  He  m.  Ana  Maria  Pelegrin,  who  was  b.  at  New  Orleans, 
July  17,  1813.  He  d.  at  Puerto  Plata.  Santo  Domingo.  Nov.  11, 
1866.     Ana  still  survives. 

7.  1.  Francis,  b.  in  Puerto  Plata.  Aug.  2,  1837;  m.,  L,  Joachim  Porchas 

of   Spain,  who   d.   in  1863.     She  m.,  II.,  Judge  Yldeforas  Mella 
Brea  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Santo  Domingo. 


i 


86                                           THE   LITHGOW   FAMILY. 
1.  Joaquin,  b. ;  d.  in  1865. 


2.  Ramon,  b.  Aug.  28,  1868. 

3.  Antonio,  b.  Jan.  14,  1873. 

4.  Rosa,  b.  August  16,  1877. 

8.  2.  Charlotte,  b.  Sept.  5,  1838;  d.  April,  1839. 

9.  3.  Washington  (4). 

10.  4.  Frederick  (5). 

11.  5.  William,  b.  Aug.  11,  1843;  d.  June  20,  1844. 

12.  6.  George  (6). 

13.  7.  William  (7). 

14.  8.  Altagracia,  b.  Aug.  10,  1S50;  d.  July  27,   1867.     Distinguished  for 

amiability  and  beauty. 

15.  9.  Thomas  (8). 

(3)  William  Lithgow  (2.  2),  b.  July  1,  1793;  admitted  to  the 
bar,  but  gave  up  his  profession  and  became  au  able  shipmaster  and 
merchant  of  New  York.  He  m.  Nov.  16,  1816,  Hetty  Green,  dau. 
of  John  and  Phoebe  (Seaman)  Langdon  of  New  York,  and  d.  Nov. 
19,  1826.     Hetty  was  b.  Feb.  7,  1794,  and  d.  Oct.  10,  1868. 

1.  William.  1).  in  Boston,  Nov.  26,  1821;  d.   in  Minnesota,  Sept.  19, 

1853. 

2.  John  Langdon,  b.  June  27,  1823 ;  d.  Aug.  18,  1S26. 

3.  j  Phoebe  Langdon,  b.  July  26,  1826. 

4. 1  Martha  Bridge,  b.  July  26,  1826;  d.  in  New  York,  April  18,  1831. 
Phoebe  Langdon  Lithgow  m.  Sept.  7,  1844,  Tolman  Willey. 

1.  Walter  J.,  b.  in  Boston,  March  15,  1848. 

2.  William  Lithgow,  b.  May  30,  1858. 


THE   LITHGOW    FAMILY.  87 

THIRD     GENERATION 

From  Col.  William  Lithgow. 

(•A)  Washington  Lithgow  was  b.  in  Puerto  Plata.  July  4,  1840. 
In  1865,  he,  then  living  in  Charlestown.  Mass.,  was  chosen  to  serve 
on  the  School  Committee.  Through  the  war.  he  had  done,  young  as 
he  was,  efficient  service  to  the  country.  In  1880,  lie  was  President 
of  the  Republican  State  Convention  of  New  Jersey,  has  been  Consul- 
General  from  Santo  Domingo  at  New  York,  and  Vice-Consul  of  the 
United  States  in  Puerto  Plata.  He  is  now  Consul-General  of  Hayti 
in  Puerto  Plata.  With  his  brother  William,  he  owns  one  of  the 
largest  central  sugar  factories  in  the  world,  having  the  capacity  of 
eight  thousand  tons.  He  owns  also  the  first  railway  built  on  the 
island. 

He  m.  in  Charlestown.  Mass..  June  17.  1863,  Ellen  Prentiss  Pierce 
of  Andover. 

16.  1.  Ellen  Maria,  b.  Feb.  27.  18 

17.  2.  Arthur  Washington,  b.  Jan.  22.  1872. 

la  :'..  William  Pierce,  b.  Jan.  10,  1874;  d.  May  16,  1874. 

19.  4.  Mary,  b.  Nov.  12,1878. 

(5)  Frederic  Lithgow  (10.4).  b.  April  10,  1842.  When  the 
Dominicans  rose  against  the  Spanish  rule,  his  sympathies  were  with 
them  in  their  desire  for  independence.  He  enlisted  in  the  country's 
service  as  a  volunteer.  Fidelity  and  energy  soon  raised  him  to  a 
Colonel's  rank.  Thence  he  was  passed  to  the  honor  of  General  of 
Division,  the  highest  office  in  the  Dominican  Army.  He  has  also 
been  Minister  of  Foreign  Affairs,  and  for  years  has  been  Military 
and  Civil  Governor  of  the  District  of  Puerto  Plata.  In  1880,  he  was 
nominated  for  President  of  Santo  Domingo,  but  declined  the  honor. 
He  has  always  been  a  leader  in  the  Liberal  and  Reform  Party.  He 
m.  Sofia  Arzeno. 

20.  1.  Maria  Altagracia,  b.  April  12,  187'). 

21.  2.  Ana  Gertrudes,  b.  April  7,  1880;  d.  Dec.  8,  1880. 

(6)  George  Lithgow  (11.  5),  b.  April  19.  1845  ;  m.  Feb.  11,  1868, 
Maria  Mercedes  Sigolleu. 

22.  1.  Maria  Altagracia,  b.  Nov.  30,  1868. 

23.  2.  Pedro  Tomas,  b.  Jan.  21,  1870. 


88  THE   LITHGOW   FAMILY. 

24.  3.  Eugenia,  b.  Dec.  25,  1872. 

25.  4.  Pablo,  b.  June  14,  1874;  d. 

26.  5.  Ermina,  b.  Jan.  3,  1877. 

27.  6.  Pablo,  b.  June  28,  1880. 

(7)  William  Lithgow  (13.  7),  b.  March  24,  1847.  At  his  father's 
death,  though  he  was  only  twenty-one  years  old,  William  was  ap- 
pointed Vice-Consul  of  U.S.  This  place  he  has  continued  to  hold 
except  for  two  }"ears.  His  home,  as  well  as  the  Consulate,  was  al- 
ways open,  during  the  frequent  revolutions  incident  to  the  forming 
republic,  as  an  asylum  to  the  proscribed.  At  the  risk  of  his  life  he 
has  saved  many  eminent  men  by  the  protection  of  the  American  flag. 
He  organized  the  First  National  Bank  of  Santo  Domingo,  and  has 
continued  from  the  first  its  President.  For  three  years  he  was  Judge 
of  the  Court  of  Commerce.  He  is  the  partner  of  his  brother  Wash- 
ington in  their  very  extensive  sugar  works. 

He  m.,  I.,  March  24.  1847,  Ana  Luisa  Allonzo,  who  d.  July  26, 
1879  ;  m.,  II.,  May  27,  1882,  Amelia  Arzeno. 

28.  1.  Ana  Luisa,  b.  Aug.  20,  1869;  d.  Dec.  15,  1873. 

29.  2.  Arturo,  b.  Aug.  22,  1870. 

30.  3.  William,  b.  Jan.  17,  1875. 

31.  4.  Washington,  b.  Dec.  24,  1S75;  d.  Sept.  8,  1876. 

32.  5.  Federico,  b.  Dec.  23,  1S76. 

33.  6.  Washington,  b.  April  15,  1S78. 

34.  7.  Maria  Altagracia,  b.  July  18,  1879. 


35.  8.  Amelia,  b.  April  5,  1883. 

(8)  Thomas   Lithgow    (15.9),    b.   July    7,    1853;  m.    Elizabeth 
Josephine  Tappan  of  Charlestown. 

36.  1.  Josephine  Caroline,  b.  Feb.  7,  1883. 


89 


IXDEX   TO    NAMES. 


Abbot,  Rev.  Jacob,  20. 

Mary  D..  20. 

Rebecca.      See    Spauldikg    and 
Snow. 
Adams,  Abel,  49. 

Alvin,  20. 

Alvi;     _ 

Alvin,  20. 

Anne  M..  - 

Anne  R.  (Bridge),  20. 

Edward  L.,  20. 

Edward  L.    2 

Ellen  Waters.  20. 

Emily  (Mary),  26. 

Hannab.     See  Bridge. 

Howard  M..  26. 

Hannah  (Proctor),  49. 

Helen  F.     See  Dixsmore. 

Isabella  H.  (Burnham),  26. 

John  Q.,  68. 

Jonas,  20. 

Lucinda,  70. 

Mary  E.     See  Bridge. 

Phoebe  (Hoar).  26. 

Waldo,  20. 

William.  '<">. 

Willis,  20. 
Allen*  Family,  43. 

Isaac,  56. 

Lois  P.     See  Bridge. 

Martha.  43. 

Sally  (Kenney),  56. 
Andrews,  William,  6. 
Anns,  George  W.,  38. 

Julia,  38. 
Appendix  I.,  78. 


Appendix  II.,  SO. 

Arthur,  Alice  B.  (Jackson  .  72. 

Pres.  Chester  A..  72. 

Malvina  (Stone),  7".'. 
Col.  William.  72. 

Rev.  William.  72. 
Augusta.  Me.,  North's  History  of,  00, 

01,  08. 
Austin,     Abigail     (Whitney).       See 
Bridge. 

Samuel,  13. 
Atres,  Benjamin.  57. 

Louisa  (Bradley).  57. 

Mary  L.     See  Bridge. 
Babson's  History  of  Gloucester,  43. 
Bacon,  Alice  M.,  24. 

Eliza.  24. 

Ella  J.     See  Kim. -ley. 

Josie  R.  (Glover),  24. 

Leonard  R..  24. 

Martha  A.,  24. 

Mary  A..  24. 

Moses,  24. 

Moses  C.  24. 

Moses  C.  24. 

Moses  W..  24. 

Sarah  E.     See  Teble. 
Badlam,  Alice.     See  Sanderson. 
Bagley,  Emily  S.     See  Bridge. 

Lois  M.     See  Bridge. 

Maria  B.     See  Herrick. 

Nancy  (Marsh).  53,  54.  55. 

Nancy  A.     See  Bridge. 

Thomas,  53,  54,  55. 
Baker,  Alice  (Bridge),  00. 

Rev.  Alvin.  69. 


90 


INDEX   TO   NAMES. 


Baker,  Catharine  (Catlin),  66. 

Charlotte  A.,  66. 

David,  75. 

Ebenezer,  66. 

Ebenezer,  66. 

Edgar,  66. 

Harriet.     See  Bridge. 

Julianna,  66. 

Julianna,  66. 

Maria  (Lane),  66. 

Mary  B.  (Vose),  69. 

Matthew  B.,  66. 

Susan  (Strong),  75. 
Balch,  Mary.     See  Brown,  17. 
Ballou,  Eliza,  77. 

James,  77. 

Maturin,  77. 

Mehitable  (Ingals),  77. 
Barber,  Elizabeth  B.  (Jackson),  72. 

William,  72. 
Barker,  Delia  A.     See  Fames. 
Barnard,  Anne.     See  Bowman. 
Barney,  Charlotte,  23. 

Fanny,  23. 

George  H.,  23. 

George  H.,  23. 

Henry  W.,  23. 

Lucy  A.  (Weeks),  23. 

Nancy  E.,  23. 
Barns,  Anne,  19. 

Margaret.     See  Bridge. 
Barr,  Elvira  (Percy),  33. 

William  E.,  33. 

William  E.,  33. 
Barrett,  Cyrus,  59. 
James,  59. 

Phoebe  (Bridge),  59. 

Stephen,  59. 
Barrows,     Mrs.     Mary    W.        See 

Bridge. 
Bartlett  Family,  18. 

Abial,  18. 

Edward,  18. 

Elizabeth  (Call),  72. 

Elizabeth.     See  Bridge. 

Josiah,  72. 

Ensign  Thomas,  18. 


Beal,  Rebecca.     See  Bridge. 

Rebecca  (Wilkinson),  26. 

Samuel,  26. 
Belcher,  Jeremy,  13. 

Mary  (Lockwood),  13. 

Mary,  13. 
Bemis,  Abigail  (Bridge),  18. 

Anna  (Richardson),  18. 

Anne  (Vose),  18. 

Charles,  18. 

David,  18. 

David,  18. 

Isaac,  18. 

Mary  (Bright),  18. 

Nathaniel,  18. 

Nathaniel,  18. 
Bent,  Abigail,  18. 

Isaac,  18. 

Martin,  18. 

Matthew,  18. 

Dea.  Matthias,  18. 

Mary,  18. 

Nancy,  18. 
Betts,  Elizabeth,  10. 
Bigelow,  Elizabeth  (Flagg)   77 

Joshua,  77. 

Mercy.     See  Garfield. 
Blanchard,  David,  Jr.,  31. 

Elliot  (Bridge),  31. 

Jesse,  31. 

Sarah  (Bridge),  31. 
Blood,  Frederick,  22. 

Nancy  (Bridge),  22. 
Blossom,  Calvin  E.,  45. 

Charles  F.,  45. 

Eliab  H.,  45. 

Eliza  J.  (Winne),45. 

George  W.,  45. 

Helen,  45. 

Henry  G.,  45. 

Joseph  W.,  45. 

Mary  A.,  45. 

Mary  J.  (George),  45. 

Mary  (Small),  45. 

Paulina.     See  Matthews 

Sarah  (Herrick),  45. 
Blowers,  Capt.  Pyam,  13. 


INDEX  TO   NAMES. 


91 


Bond's,  Dr.  Henry,  History  of  Water- 
town,  12,  17,  18,  19,  30,  52,  63, 
73,  77. 
Bowers,  Ada  L.  (Bridge),  54. 

Albert  M..  54. 

James  V.,  54. 

Lilian  L.,  54. 

Orra,  54. 

Oscar  R.,  54. 
Bowks,  Anna  (Whitney),  13. 

Lucy  (Hancock),  12 

Nicholas,  12. 

Rev.  Nicholas,  12. 

William,  13. 
Bowman  Family,  1  1. 

Abigail.     See  Bridge. 

Anne  (Barnard),  14. 

Betty.     See  Bridge. 

Edmund  B.,  61. 

Edmund  B„  61. 

Elizabeth  Y„  61. 

Frances  P.     See  Randlett. 

Hannah  (Norris),  61. 

James  N.,  61. 

Judge  Jonathan,  61. 

Jonathan,  61. 

Joseph,  59. 

Joseph,  60. 

Martha.     Sec  Bridge. 

Nathaniel,  14. 

Mary  (Reed),  21,  32. 

Mary  E.  (Lowell),  61. 

Mary  II.     Sec  Wood. 

Mary  L.     Sec  Johnson. 

Phoebe.     See  Bridge,  59. 

Phoebe.     See  Clark. 

Phoebe.     See  Bridge,  60. 

Phoebe,  61. 

Phoebe,  59. 

Pluma  H.  (Ralph),  46. 

Thankful  (Forbush),  60. 

Thomas,  61. 

William,  21,  32. 

Dr.  William.  46. 

William,  61. 

William,  61. 
Braintree  Company,  6. 


Brea,  Antonio,  86. 

Frances  (  Fithgow  ),  85. 

Ramon,  86. 

Rosa,  86. 

Judge  Y.  M.,  86. 
Brett,  Andrew  B.,  72. 

Charlotte  (Bridge),  72. 

John  B.,  72. 
Bridge,  Aaron,  c8,  43. 

Aaron  S.,  c6,  44. 

Abel  E.,  c7,  48,  53. 

Abigail.4      See  WHITNEY. 

Abigail,  a6.     See  Bemis. 

Abigail,  a ',  21. 

Abigail  B.,  a7.     See  Stearns. 

Abigail  (Cutter),  30. 

Abigail,  hb.    See  Fox. 

Abigail,  b~.     See  Coli.or. 

Abigail  (Bullard),  36. 

Abigail  A.  <■",  48. 

Adelaide  C.  (Johnson),  38. 

Ada  L.,  c8,  48.    See  Bowers. 

Adaline  E.,  c8.     See  Kki.lt. 

Adaline  A.  (Johnson),  40. 

Adaline,  a  '■',  29. 

Adaline  M.,  b&.     See  Upham. 

Adaline  (Phipps),  34. 

Adaline  (Stearns),  34. 

Addie  A.,  /J",  34. 

Agnes  (Kent),  28. 

Albert  D.,  r»,57. 

Alia  A.  (Randall),  39. 

Alice  R.,  a9,  29. 

Alice  (Winchester),  36. 

Alice  G.,  !>",  40. 

Alice  (Parker),  66. 

Alice,  d6.     See  Baker. 

Alice,  ,/',  72. 

Alice  E.,r/8,  75. 

Almira  A.  (Smith),  38. 

Almira,  c7.     See  Morrison. 

Amanda  II.,  c1.     See  Hathorn. 

Amos,  !>G,  30. 

Amos  O.,  6 8,  84,  35,  86. 

Andrew  W.,  -/8,  75,  76. 

Andrew  W.,  rf9,  76. 

Anna,  a6.     See  Sanderson. 


92 


INDEX   TO   NAMES. 


Bridge,  Anna  (Harrington),  20. 
Anna  V.  (Wheeler),  39. 
Anna  M.,  d1.     See  Stratton. 
Anna  M.  (King),  37. 
Anna  M.,  69,  37. 
Anna,  c6.     See  Wright. 
Anna  L.,  ds,  78. 
Anne  (Danforth),  11. 
Anne.3     See  Livermore. 
Anne.4     See  Butterfield. 
Anne,  a5.     See  Brooks. 
Anne  (Perkins),  15,  20. 
Anne,  a6,  16. 
Anne  (Waters),  21. 
Anne  0.,  a 8,  25. 
Anne  E.,  as.     See  Adams. 
Anne   J.,   a8.      See    Gault    and 

Vaughan. 
Anne,  a  9,  29. 
Anne  (Haskell),  30. 
Anne  (Herrick),  41. 
Anne,  d1,  71. 
Anne  F.  H.,  d8,  73. 
Anne  C.  (Kitchen),  76. 
Anne  P.,  c '.     See  Piper. 
Annette,  b9,  36. 
Arthur  F.,  a9,  28. 
Arthur,  b9,  36. 
Arrietta  E.,  c8,  56. 
Rev.  Asarelah  M.,  c~,  44,  48,  52. 
Augusta  (Edmonds),  28. 
Austin,  bs,  34. 
Beatrice  (Gage),  40. 
Benjamin,  bb,  30. 
Benjamin,  b°,  30. 
Benjamin  B.,  bs,  35,  37. 
Benjamin  H.,  h9,  37. 
Benjamin  H.,  69,  38. 
Benjamin  H.,  b  10,  40. 
Betsey,  a1,  21. 
Betty  (Bowman),  21. 
Bezaleel,  c6,  46,  49. 
Bezaleel,  c",  49,  53. 
Bowman,  d6,  67. 
Byron  A.,  r9,  57. 
Candace  S.  (Gage),  56. 
Caroline  W.,  68,  34. 


Bridge,  Caroline  J.  (Lehne),  40. 
Caroline  P.  (Spaulding),  53. 
Caroline  L.,  c  9,  57. 
Caroline  (Tinker),  57. 
Caroline,  d6,  67. 
Caroline  E.,  d~.     See  Davis. 
Catharine  N.,  c7,  49. 
Catharine  R.,  c7,  51. 
Charles,  a9,  29. 
Charles  A.,  b  9,  3,  38,  40. 
Charles,  c~,  4,  51,  57. 
Charles  C,  a 8,  27,  29. 
Charles,  a",  21. 
Charles  E.,  n9,  28,  29. 
Charles  R,,  «8,  25. 
Charles  W.,  63,  37,  40. 
Charles,  cs,  45. 
Charles  L.F.,f8,  52,57. 
Charles  E.,  c8,  54. 
Charles  L.,  c9,  57. 
Charles  F.,  c8,  57. 
Charles  E.  B.,  c9,  57. 
Charles  M.,  c  9,  58. 
Charles,  d~,  71. 
Charles  A.,  r/8,  75. 
Charlotte  Y.,  b 8,  34,  36. 
Charlotte  A.,  c8.     See  Taylor. 
Charlotte  (Marshall),  74. 
Charlotte  A.,  rf8.     See  Foster. 
Charlotte,  </8,  63. 
Charlotte,  d~.     See  Bret. 
Charlotte  M.,  rf9,  76. 
Charlotte  May,  d  -\  76. 
Clara  N.,  d\  73. 
Clara  (Kissam),  75. 
Colimer  G.,  c8,  57. 
CoridonS.,  c8,  53. 
Cornelia,  69.     See  Haliday. 
Cornelia  M.,  c8.     See  Philips. 
Daniel,  a6,  16,  19. 
Daniel,  a7,  20,  25. 
Daniel  A.,  a8,  25. 
Daniel  W.,  «7,  21. 
Dora,  «9.     See  Nichols. 
Dorcas,2  12. 

Dorcas.3     See  Champney. 
Eben,  J.,  a 10,  29. 


I  N  I  >  1 1 X    TO    NA.MKS. 


93 


Bridge,  Ebenezer,  •  ',  4,  41,45. 
Ebenezer,  c6,  46. 
Ebenezer  A.,    ".  4.'.  54. 
Ebenezer,  e7,  4!'.  55. 
Ebenezer,  c8,  55. 
Edmund,  d\  -30,60,82. 
Edmund,  d 
Edmund,  </6,  63. 
Edmund,  d~,  68. 
Edmund  F.,  d*,  70. 
Edmund,  a*8,  75. 
Edmund,  r/9,  76. 
Edward  E.,  a9,  28. 
Edward  B.,  i9,  38. 
Edward,  cs,  55. 
Edward,  >!',  70,  75. 
Edward  \\\.  <is,  75. 
Edward  L.,  c/8,  75. 
Edward  W.,  d8,  74,  76. 
Edward  W.,  d9,  76. 
Edwin  I.,  < ■'■',  57. 
Edwin  B.,  c8,  53,  57. 
Eirene  M.,  48. 
Eleanor  I.,  «8.     See  Lovett. 
Eleanor  (Harrington),  52. 
Eliab,  c6,  42. 
Eliab  W.,  c7,  50,  56. 
Eliza  (Elliot),  28. 
Eliza  U..  -  :,  49. 
Eliza  J.  (Perkins),  74. 
Elizabeth  (Saunders),  10,  11. 
Elizabeth.8     See  Garfield. 
Elizabeth,4  13,  14. 
Elizabeth.  ":.     See  MacGee. 
Elizabeth  F.,  C8,  55. 
Elizabeth  (Jones),  30. 
Elizabeth  I".  (Cady),  37. 
Elizabeth,  <".     See  Ralph. 
Elizabeth  A.,  >',  51. 
Elizabeth  <i.  (Crosby        . 
Elizabeth  ('..  C7,  52. 

Elizabeth,  ■'  .  •;:. 
Elizabeth,  d*,  67. 
Elizabeth  S.  (Curtis),  71. 

Elizabeth,  d  •.  :<;. 

Elizabeth,  a7.     See  Stbout   and 
HARRINGTON. 


Bridge.  Elizabeth  (Bartlett),  72. 
Elizabeth  B.     See  Chapiv. 
Ella  (Carter),  29. 
Ella  P.,      ,  38. 
Ella  M.,  •  '.     See  S  vt.gent. 
Ellen  F.  (Whitney),  29. 
Ellen  C.  (Smith 
Ellen  IE  (Moore),  38. 
Ellen  C.  (Burke),  58. 
Ellen  (McNear),  76. 
Elliot  (Reed),  31. 
Elliot,  66,  31. 

Elliot,  b6.     See  Blakchard. 
Elliot,  b~.     See  Xewhall. 
Elvira.     See  Bruce. 
Elvira  R.,  b8,  35. 
Emelia,  <z6.     See  Gates. 
Emeline,  bs,  34. 
Emeroy  M.,  c8,  54. 
Emery  L.,  b9,  38. 
Emily,  ■'<".  '■)'>. 

Emily  D.,  c8.     See  Howard. 
Emily  W.,  c8.     See  Huston. 
Emily,  <■'.     See  Bagley. 
Emily  A.,  c8,  00. 
Emily,  d1.     See  Si-ear. 
Emma,  a7,  21. 
Emma,  d8,  52. 
Emma  M.,  c?9,  57. 
Emogene  (Fisher),  56. 
Erastus  J.,  <:',  51,  56. 
Ernest,  c9,  57. 
Esther,  6  6,  80. 
Esther  A.  (Burdick),  37. 
Esther.  &8,  .;4. 
Ethel  M.,  6^,40. 
Eunice,  d6.     Se<   Downing. 
Eunice  A.  (Tafl 
Eunice  (Butter),  44. 
Eunice  (Brown;.  63, 
Eva  St.  Clair  (Watson),  39. 
Eveline,'7.     See  Williams. 
Eveline  W.,  -  \  55. 
Eveline  W.,  I  ' 
Evelyn  A.,  "'.     See  King. 
Fanny  (Latham),  34,  36. 
Fanny,  c7.     See  Currier. 


94 


INDEX   TO   NAMES. 


Bridge,  Florence  H.,  r/9,  76. 
Florence  M.,  610,  39. 
Frances  E.,  b™,  40. 
Francis  H.,  Is,  35,  38. 
Francis  M.,  6W,  39. 
Francis,  d'°,  59. 
Francis,  db,  59,  63. 
Francis,  r/6,  65. 
Francis  A.,  d9,  72. 
Frank  B.,  c8,  53. 
Frank  C,  e8,  54. 
Franklin,  d8,  63,  71. 
Franklin,  d8,  75,  76. 
Franklin,  d9,  70. 
Frederick  W.,  a9,  28. 
Frederick  C,  aw,  29. 
Frederick  H.,  c8,  52. 
Frederick  F.,  c8,  55. 
Frederick  N.,  c8,  57. 
Frederick  W.,  d  8,  75. 
Frederick  W.,  d9,  76. 
Frederick,  d8,  75,  76. 
George,  66,  3,  30. 
George  H„  a8,  28,  29. 
George  H.,  a9,  29. 
George  W.,  b8,  35,  36. 
George  A.,  69,  36. 
George  W.,  b 10,  40. 
George  W.,  c8,  52. 
George  C,  c8,  53. 
George  E.,  c8,  56. 
George  A.,  c8,  56,58. 
George  W.,  c9,  58. 
George,  <f7,  71. 
Georgia  (Churchill),  40. 
Gertrude  A.,  d™,  40. 
Gilford  M.,  b9,  37. 
Guy  Sylvester,  c8,  4,  55. 
Hannah  E.,  a9,  28. 
Hannah  (Smith),  35. 
Hannah,  c6.     See  Chandler  and 

Whitcomb. 
Hannah,  c7.     See  Kelsea. 
Hannah  (Adams),  49. 
Hannah  M.,  c7,  49. 
Hannah  S.,  c7.     See  Van  Pelt. 
Hannah  (Slay ton),  49. 


Bridge,  Hannah  (Taylor),  50. 
Hannah,  c~.     See  Kidder. 
Hannah  F.  (Palmer),  53. 
Hannah  (Townsend),  59. 
Hannah  (North),  68. 
Hannah,  d".     See  Williams. 
Hannah  C.,  d~.     See  Lord. 
Hannah  M.  (Wellington),  73. 
Hannah  N.,  f/8,  73. 
Hannah  (Gammon),  76. 
Hannah  B.,  d9,  76. 
Harriet  A.,  69.     See  Gourley. 
Harriet,  a1.     See  Brown. 
Harriet,  a  8.     See  Hall. 
Harriet  E.,  68,  35. 
Harriet  A.  (Brigham),  39. 
Harriet,  c7.     See  Bridgman. 
HattieW.,  610,39. 
Helen  A.  (Hapworth),  39. 
Helen  W.,  d8.     See  Ritchie. 
Henriette,  « 7.     See  Dana. 
Henry,  a',  21. 
Henry  M.,  a  8,  27. 
Henry  S.,  «9,  28. 
Henry,  b1,  34. 
Henry,  b 8,  34,  36. 
Henry  M.,  b8,  35,  37. 
Henry  W.  B.,  &9,  38. 
Henry  D.,  b10,  40. 
Henry  L.,  610,  40. 
Henry  M.,  c~,  50,  56. 
Henry  W.,  c7,  53. 
Henry  C,  c",  53. 
Henry  S.,  d8,  74. 
Hephzibah  M.,  c7,  48. 
Herbert  S.,  c7,  53. 
Herriman,  6",  32,  35. 
Horatio,  d\  69,  74. 
Horatio,  d8,  74. 
Joseph,  6 4,  3,  30. 
Joseph,  bb,  30. 
Joseph,  b  6,  30,  31. 
Joseph,  67,  32. 
Joseph,  ^7,  31,  34,  36. 
Joseph  A.,  b 8,  34. 
Joseph  M.,*68,  35,  38. 
Joseph  H.,  69,  37,  40. 


INDEX   TO   NAMES. 


95 


Bridge,  Joseph  B.,  <v".  i'>2. 
Joseph  II.,  </8,  74. 
Joshua,  d6,  5'.">. 
Joshua,  i/5,  59. 
Joshua  F.,  a  s,  25,  28. 
Rev.  Josiah,  c5,  16,  41,  43. 
Dea.  Josiah,  e6,  45,  48. 
Josiah,  c7,  48,  52. 
Josiah,  c8,  53. 
Josiah  G.,  c  8,  54,  57. 
Judith  B.,  ft8,  34. 
Julia  (Annis),  38. 
Julia,  d*.     See  Moore. 
Julia,  d\  72. 
Julia,  d*,  76. 
Julianna  B.,  d7,  72. 
Katharine  M.,  r8,  53. 
Laura  (Wood),  33. 
Laura  (Lauison),  54. 
Le  Roy,  e8,  56. 
Levi,  d6,  65. 
Lilian  M.,  r9,  57. 
Lilly  F.,  ft9,  38. 
Lizzie  W.,b™,  39. 
Lois  M.  (Bagley),  54. 
Lois  P.  (Allen),  56. 
Loren,  ft9,  36. 
Louisa,^/7.     See  Kilham. 
Louisa  M.,  ft9,  37. 
Louisa  M.,  c~,  50. 
Lowell  B.,  ft10,  39. 
Lucina  S.  (Lamson),  53. 
Lucius,  c7,  51. 
Lucius  L.,  6",  39. 
Lucy,  ft s.     See  Johnson. 
Lucy  L.,  c".     See  Page. 
Lucy  A.  W.,  c8,  53. 
Lucy  M.  (Tinker),  57. 
Lucy  P.,  ds,  74. 
Lucy,  d  6,  65. 

LuellaF.,  c8.     See  Joslyn. 
Lurana  (Hinsdale),  33. 
Lurana,  ft8.     See  Fox. 
Luther  A.,  ft9,  37. 
Lydia  J.,  as,  27. 
Mabel  L.,  c9,  56. 
Irving  H.,  ft 10,  40. 


Bridge,  Isaac,  ft6,  31. 
Isaac,  ft6,  31. 
Isaac,  C,  ft7,  31,  34,  35. 
Isaac,  b 7,  32. 

Isabella  M.  (Burroughs),  57. 
James,  a7,  24. 
James,  a8,  28. 
James,  c6,  46,  50. 
James  M.,  c 7,  50,  55. 
James  C,  e8,  53. 
James  W.,  c8,  56. 
James,  d5,  59. 
James,  c?6,  61,  68. 
James,  d~,  69,  73. 
James  B.,  d\  73. 
James,  c?8,  74,  76. 
James,  d8,  73. 
James  W.,  rf9,  76. 
James,  rf9,  76. 
Jane  E.,  ft9,  38. 
Jane  L.,  c7,  49. 
Jane  P.,  d7,  70. 
Jennie  M.  (Forest),  56. 
Jeremiah,  ft5,  30,  31. 
Jesse,  ft6,  30. 
Jesse  F.,  ft8,  35,  38. 
Jessie  R.,ft9,  38. 
Jessie  G.,  c8,  54. 
Jonas,  db,  59,  67. 
Jonas,  d6,  63. 
Jonas,  d6,  67. 
Jonas  F.,  d~,  73. 
John,1  Dea.,  3,  5,  6-11. 
John,3  11. 
John,  c*,  4,  13,  41. 
John  A.,  a7,  20,  25. 
John,  a7,  21,  26. 
John  S.,  a8,  25. 
John,  ft6,  31. 
John  W.,  ft8,  34. 
John  W.,  ft8,  35,37. 
John  W.,ft9,  37,  40. 
John,  Esq.,  c'°,  41,  42. 
John,  c6,  42,  47. 
John,  c  6,46,  49. 
John,  c7,  47. 
John,  c7,  49. 


96 


INDEX   TO   NAMES. 


Bridge,  Jonathan,  o6,  31,  32. 
Jonathan,  b7,  32,  35. 
Jonathan  D.,  b 8,  35,  36. 
Jonathan  D.,  b  9,  38. 

Jonathan,  c 8,  46,  50. 

Mabel  R.,  c9,  58. 

Mae  (Manford),  57. 

Margaret  (Barns),  19. 

Margaret  (St.  John),  29. 

Margaret  N.,  ds.     See  Child. 

Margaret,  d7.     See  North. 

Margaret  (Paine),  69. 

Maria  T.,  a 8.     See  Pratt. 

Maria  L.,  a8.     See  Mason. 

Maria  L.  (Gary),  55. 

Marian  E.,  c9,  57. 

Marian,  ds,  74. 

Marie  E.,  a8,  25. 

Marietta  (Safford),  57. 

Martha,3  11. 

Martha,4  13,  14. 

Martha,  a G,  17. 

Martha  A.  (Noyes),  28. 

Martha,  c6.     See  Prentiss. 

Martha  S.  (Harding),  44. 

Martha  E.,  c7,  48. 

Martha  H.,  c8,  52. 

Martha  (Bowman),  59. 

Martha,  db,  59. 

Martha,  d6.     See  Lithgow. 

Martha,  d6,  67. 

Martha,  d6,  67. 

Martin,  a  \  22. 

Mary.4     See  Russell. 

Mary,  a  5.     See  Brown. 

Mary,   a6.     See   Coolidge   and 

Bent. 
Mary  A.,  a7,  19. 
Mary,  o7,  21. 
Mary,  n  '.     See  Eaton. 
Mary  S.  (Luraraas),  25. 
Mary  W.  S.  M.,  a8,  25. 
Mary  (Flagg),  25. 
Mary  L.,  a 8.     See  Libby. 
Mary  H.,  a8.     See  McDonald. 
Mary  H.,  a  8,  26. 
Mary  (Harrington),  30. 


Bridge,  Mary  (Eaton),  30. 
Mary,  b  6,  30. 

Mary  H.  I.,  c8.     See  Smythe. 
Mary,  b1.     See  Clark 
Mary  A.,  b1,  32. 
Mary  Alice,  b ',  37. 
Mary  A.,  69.     See  Hatch. 
Mary  B.  (Brown),  38. 
Mary  S.  (Hoi way),  39. 
Mary  (Morenci),  40. 
Mary,  c5.     See  Reed. 
Mary  (Moore),  42. 
Mary,  c  6,  43. 
Mary,  c6,  43. 
Mary  M.,  c7,  49. 
Mary  W.  (Barrows),  56. 
Mary  A.  (Fullam),  52. 
Mary  E.,  c8,  52. 
Mary  J.,  c9,  57. 
Mary  L.  (Ayres),  57. 
Mary  (Porter),  63. 
Mary,  d~.     See  Vose. 
Mary  H.,  d7,  70. 
Mary  P.,  d7.     See  Lowe. 
Mary  E.  (Piper),  74. 
Mary  H.,  ds,  75. 
Mary  B.,  d9,  76. 
Mary  E.  (Adams),  76. 
Mary  (Huntington),  76. 
Matthew,2  10,  11. 
Matthew,3  3, 4, 11, 13, 14,  30,  41, 59. 
Matthew,  a  4,  13,  14. 
Matthew,  a5,  14,  15. 
Matthew,  aG,  16. 
Matthew,  a  G,  19. 
Matthew,  a7,  21,  25. 
Matthew,  a7,  22. 
Matthew  H.,  a  s,  25. 
.Matthew,  a8,  27. 
Matthew,  a8,  27,  28. 
Matthew,  a9,  28. 
Matthew,  a  '■»,  28. 
Hon.  Matthew,  d5,  50,  66. 
Mattie  A.,  fc™,  39. 
Mehitable  (Wood),  45. 
Mehitable,  c6.     See  Kendall. 
Mellicent,  i5,  30. 


INDEX   TO   NAMES. 


97 


Bridge,  Mcllicent,  bG,  30. 
Mellicent,  ba,  30. 
Mellicent  C,  b9,  34. 
Melville  W.,  6»,  30,  39. 
Minerva,  bs.     See  Gaines. 
Minerva  (Griswold),  36. 
Miriam  A.,  (/9,  70. 
Miriam  A.  (Mitchell),  70. 
Nancy,  o6.      Sec  Tirrell,  Par- 

kbr,  and  Jeffries. 
Nancy,  a",  21. 
Nancy,    n " .      See    "Weeks     and 

Blood. 
Nancy  (Hudson),  27. 
Nancy,  b1,  32. 
Nancy  C.  (Bagley),  35. 
Nancy,  <■",  48. 
Nancy  E.,  cs,  52. 
Nancy  (Morse),  70. 
Nathan,  b",  31,  33. 
Nathan,  db,  59. 
Nathan,  <l'\  61. 
Nathan,  <l'\  63,  70. 
Nathan,  d>>,  66,  72. 
Nathan  W.,  d~,  70,  74. 
Cornet  Nathaniel,  a6,  3,  14,  18. 
Nathaniel,  a6,  18,21. 
Nathaniel,  a  ' ,  23. 
Newton  F.,  c8,  53,  57. 
Norman  W.,  c7,  49. 
Dr.  Norman,  cs,  55,  57. 
Octavia  1).,  e?8,  7:;. 
Olin  B.,  37,  39. 
Olive  Anne,  610,  39. 
Olive  (Keith),  46. 
Oliver  H.,  c7,  50. 
Oliver,  d  >,  65. 
Oliver  ('.,  rf8,  7-".,  76. 
Orris  E.  (Fuller),  37. 
Pamelia,  6  s,  34, 
Pamelia,  b",  34. 
Patience,  ft7.     See  Jennings. 
Patty,  </",  63. 
Patty,  d«,  63. 
Paulina  J.,  e?8,  74. 
Pauline,  r/9,  70. 
Perlev,  6»,  36. 


Bridge,  Perley  B.,  c9,  58. 

Persis  L.  See  Towlb  and  Buxton. 

Philina,  68.    See  Hill. 

Phoebe  (Bowman),  32. 

Phoebe  (Wait),  32. 

Phoebe  (Sargent),  32. 

Phoebe,  db.     See  Barrett. 

Phoebe  (Bowman),  60,  82. 

Pluma,  '•".     See  Stowe. 

Polly,  <i~,  21. 

Polly,  d'\  63. 

Priscilla,  a7,  21. 

Rachel  (Flagg),  47. 

Rachel  F.,  c7.     See  Veasie. 

Rebecca  (Beal),  26. 

Rebecca  (McDonald),  27. 

Rebecca  C,  bs.     See  Styles. 

Reuben  S.,  c7,  49. 

Richard  P.,  «6,  17,  20. 

Richard  P.,  a  ',  20. 

Richard,  a ",  21. 

Robert  C,  /;9,  38. 

Rosa,  a9,  29. 

Rosamond  E.,  c7.    See  Whitney. 

Roxana  (McLean),  5(3. 

Ruel  W.,  f/s,  74. 

Ruhana,  d6.     See  Tyler. 

Sally,  bs.     See  Perry. 

Samuel,3  11. 

Samuel  I.,  a 8,  25,  28. 

Samuel  H.,  bs,  34. 

Samuel  W.,  c8,  55. 

Samuel,  r/*,  13,  59. 

Samuel,  </•"',  59. 

Samuel,  tf«,  C,2,  69. 

Samuel,  rf«,  63. 

Samuel,  </',  67. 

Samuel,  dG,  07. 

Samuel,  rf6,  67,  73. 

Samuel  J.,  r/7,  3,4,  7,  70. 

Samuel  J.,  d6,  75. 

Samuel  11.,  rf9,  76. 

Sarah,  a5.     See  Pierce. 

Sarah,  a  7.     See  Richardson. 

Sarah,  a5.      See  KELLOGG. 

Sarah,  a6.     See  Fiago. 

Sarah,  6*.     See  Blanciiard. 


98 


INDEX   TO   NAMES. 


Bridge,  Sarah  (Crosset),  31. 
Sarah,  b~,  32. 
Sarah  H.  (Clarke),  36. 
Sarah  W.,  b9.     See  Stone. 
Sarah  (Tidd),  41. 
Sarah,  c6,  43. 
Sarah,  c6.     See  Harding. 
Sarah,  c6.     See  Heerick. 
Sarah,  c ',  48. 
Sarah,  c~,  48. 

Sarah,  c".     See  Sf-auldixg. 
Sarah  (Raymond),  53. 
Sarah  I.  (Brown),  55. 
Sarah  E.  (Morgan),  57. 
Sarah,  d6.     See  "Williams. 
Sarah,  d6.     See  Kxowles. 
Sarah  B.,  d'  (Williams),  73. 
Sarah  C,  d»,  74. 
Saurin  M.,  b9,  36. 
Sereno,  &8,  34.  36. 
Simeon,  c8,  51,  56. 
Sophia,  b~.  32. 
Susan  G.,  bs,  35. 
Susan  S.  (Davis),  34,  35. 
Susan  E.,  '■'■',  37. 
Susan  L.,  b9,  38. 
Susan,  c".     See  Dotex. 
Susan  A.,  c7,  50. 
Susan  (Holt),  50. 
Susan  (Ralph),  50. 
Susan  (Mansfield),  53. 
Susan  M.,  c8,  53. 
Susan,  cs.     See  Hatch. 
Susan,  d~.     See  Jackson. 
Susanna  (Reed),  59. 
Susanna  (Reed),  67. 
Susanna,  d°,  67, 
Susanna  M.  (Wyatt),  25. 
Stella  C,  cs.     See  Morgan. 
Sylvester,  c7,  49.  54. 
Theodore  A.,  a  \  27,  28. 
Theodore,  a  9,  29. 
Thomas,2  10,  12. 
Thomas,3  11. 
Thomas,  19. 
Thomas  H,  «  \  28. 
Thomas,  b5,  30. 


Bridge,  Thomas,  i6,  30. 
Thomas  C,  b8,  35. 
Thomas  C,  &8,  35. 
Thomas  K.  J.,  r/7,  70. 
Capt.  Thomas  K.  J.,  d~,  70. 
Tryphonia,  d~,  72. 
YashtiG.,  c8.     See  Davis. 
Yioletta  E.,  69.     See  Wilcox. 
Wallace,  b9,  36. 
Wallace,  c8,  54. 
Walter  G..  c8,  53. 
Walter  H..  c8,  53. 
ATatson  B.,  6W,  39. 
Watson  W..  ^,36,39. 
Welcome,  a  :.  29. 
Wells  H.,  68,  34. 
Wilber  W.,  bs,  35. 
Wilbur  W.,  69,  36,  39. 
Wilbur  W.,  M'.  39. 
William,  of  Xorwich,  5. 
William,  a6,  18,21. 
William,  a1,  23,  27. 
William  D.,  69,36,39. 
William  D.,  610,  40. 
William  H.,  a8,  U7. 
William  H.,  a  9,  28. 
William  C,  b9,  37. 
William,  c6,  44. 
William,  c 6,  44. 
William  E.,  c",  4,  48,  52. 
William,  c6,  46,  50. 
William,  c8,  52. 
William  F.,  c s,  53. 
William  F.,  c8,  52. 
William  C.,  c9,  56. 
William  C,  d'.  72,  75. 
William,  rfs,  59. 
William,  <Z6,  63. 
William.  rf7,  69,  74. 
William  M..  d7,  70. 
William  H.,  d\  75. 
William.  d\  75. 
William  J.,  tf9,  76. 
William  K..  d\  73. 
William  A.  S.  X.,  rf8,  73. 
WmfieldA.,  c9,  58. 
WinfieldS.,  69,  36. 


INDEX    TO   NAMES. 


99 


Bkidcman,  Caroline  L.,  51. 

Charles  B.,  51. 

Daniel,  51. 

Harriett,  51. 

Harriett  (Bridge),  51. 

Harmon}-  (Downer),  51. 

John  D.,  51. 
Brigham,  Harriet  A.     See  Bridge. 

Harriet  X.  (Williams),  39. 

Lowell,  39. 
Bright,  Mary.     See  Bkmis. 
Brooks,  Anne  (Bridge),  14. 

Asa,  14. 

Asa,  Jr.,  14. 
Brown,  Anne  L.     See  Gannett. 

Benjamin,  63. 

Charles,  17. 

Charles  I..  17. 

Charles  Henry,  19. 

Edwin,  55. 

Eliza.  17. 

Elizabeth  I.  (Tilden),  17. 

Elizabeth.     See  Coolidge. 

Eunice.     See  Bridge. 

George,  17. 

George,  17,  19. 

George  H.,  19. 

Harriet  (Bridge),  17,  10. 

Henry  1.,  17. 

Isaac,  17. 

Mary  B.    See  Bridge. 

Mary  (Baleh),  17. 

Mary  (Bridge),  17,  19. 

Mary  Louisa,  17. 

Mary  Ella,  19. 

Hon.  Moses,  17,  1'.'. 

M>>~es,  19. 

Samuel  P.  I.,  19. 

Sarah  (Bridge),  16. 

Sarah  I.     See  Bridge. 

Sarali  (Reed),  63. 

Susan  Q.,  55. 

Dea.  William,  Jr.,  16,  17. 

William  K.,  17. 

Zebiah  Cravatt.     See  Tildex. 
Bruce,  Dexter,  34. 

Elvira  (Bridge),  34. 


Brlce,  Henry,  34. 

Hephzibah  (Porter),  34. 

Pamelia.     See  Sater. 

Ruth.     See  Cushman. 

Susan.     See  Mapes. 

Victor.  34. 

Winslow,  34. 
Bullard,  Abigail  L.     See  Bridgj 

Hannah  Holbrook,  36. 

Liberty.  36. 
Btjrdick,  Estlier  A.     See  Bridge. 

Mary.  :.'•">. 

Mary  Catharine.     See  Liuby. 

Perrin,  25. 

Phoebe  A.  (Wilbur),  37. 

Eobert,  37. 
Burke,  Amasa,  58. 

Ellen  C.     See  Bridge. 

Ruth  B.  (Hubbell),  58. 
Burn  am,  Annis  (Crawford),  26. 

Arthur  N.,  82. 

Isabella  II.     See  Adams. 

Maria  G.  (Downes),  82. 

Dr.  Walter,  26. 
Burroughs,  Isabella  M.    See  Bridge. 
Butterfield,  Mary,  13. 
Buxton,  Austin  H.,  34. 

Persis  L.  (Bridge),  34. 
Cauv,  Alva  (Spellman),  37. 

Elizabeth  F.     SeeBRiix.; 
Calderwood,      Emily      Jane.        See 
Weeks. 

Jane  (Clarke),  23. 

Nelson.  -!•'!. 
Cambridge,  1'age's  History  of,  7,  10. 

Church  of,  9. 

Schools  of,  9. 
Canadian  Expedition,  13. 
Carter,  Azubal  II.,  29. 

Ebenezer,  29. 

Ella.     See  Bridge. 
Cati.in,  Charles  J.,  26. 

Maria  L.  (Libby),  25. 
Chambers,  David,  L'-'i. 

Ella  (Stearns),  23. 

George,  23. 

Millie  Lee.  23. 


100 


INDEX   TO   NAMES. 


Champney,  Abigail,  12. 

Capt.  Daniel,  12. 

Daniel,  12. 

Dorcas  (Bridge),  12. 

Dorcas.     See  Bowes. 

Downing,  12. 

Jane,  12. 

Noah,  12. 

Ruling  Elder  Richard,  12. 

Thomas,  12. 
Chandlei;,  Beulah  (Merriam),  42. 

Hannah  (Bridge),  42. 

Hannah,  42. 

Cornet  John,  42. 

John,  42. 

Gen.  Joseph,  42. 

Joseph,  42. 

Sarah,  42. 
Chapin,  Charles,  72. 

Elizabeth  B.  (Bridge),  72. 

Elizabeth  A.     See  Clark. 
Chapman,  Georgietta  F.  (Bridge),  54. 

Wilmot  W.,  54. 
Child,  Anne  C,  74. 

Greenwood  C,  74. 

Helen  G.,  74. 

James  R.,  74. 

Lucy  II.  (Palmer),  74. 

Margaret  N.  (Bridge),  74. 

Mary  G.,  74. 
Churchill,  George  H.,  40. 

Georgia  E.     See  Bridge. 

Mary  E.  (Daniels),  40. 
Clarke,  Alice,  72.  i. 

David,  31. 

Elizabeth  A.  Chapin,  72. 

Rev.  Jonas,  12. 

Lucy,  12. 

Mary  (Bridge),  31. 

Oliver,  72. 

Phoebe  (Bridge),  01. 

Sarah  F.     See  Bridge. 

William,  61. 

William,  72. 

William,  72. 
Collor,  Abigail  (Bridge),  31. 

Charles  W.,  31. 


Collor,  Hannah,  31. 

Samuel,  31. 

William,  31. 
Collections  of  Hist.  Soc.  of  Maine, 

79,  81. 
Comee,  Abigail.     See  Pierce. 
Conant,  Abigail  (Field),  75. 

Oliver,  75. 

Sarah  W.     See  Bridge. 
Cony,  Paulina  B.     See  Weston. 
Coolidge,  Elizabeth  (Brown),  18. 

Mary  (Bridge),  18. 

Mary  (Hale),  18. 

Mary,  18. 

William,  18. 

William,  18. 

William,  18. 
Craigie  House,  7. 
Creighton,  Nancy  J.  (Jeffries),  19. 

Rev.  William,  19. 
Crocker,  George,  83. 

George  G.,  83. 

Helen  G.,  83. 

Helen  (Devcns),  83. 

Jane.     See  Payson. 

Sally,  83. 
Crosbv,  Elizabeth  G.     See  Bridge. 

Huldah  R.  (Sage),  52. 

Rev.  Jaazaniah,  52. 
Currier,  Elizabeth  J.    See  Page  and 
Robinson. 

Fanny  (Bridge),  47. 

Hannette  B.     See  Homes. 

Capt.  Joseph,  47. 

Joseph,  48. 

Sarah,  47. 
Curtis,  Caleb,  71. 

Elizabeth  S.     See  Bridge. 

Hannah,  71. 
Cushman,  Euth  (Bruce),  34. 
Cutler,  Abigail.     See  Bridge. 

Sarah  Stone,  30 

Thomas,  30. 
Dabney,  Charles  H.,  85. 

Ellen  M.,  85. 

Mary  F.     See  Payson. 
Dana,  Abigail  F.  (Ames),  21. 


INDEX   TO    NAMES. 


101 


Dana,  Anna  II.,  20. 

Henrietta  (Bridge),  20. 

Henrietta  B.    See  ELai  bs. 

Israel  Thomdike,  21. 

Israel  Thomdike,  21. 

Juliette  S.  (Starr),  20. 

Mary  Dane.    See  WOODBUKT  and 
Abbot. 

Mary  E.  (Crockett),  20. 

Richard  Perkins,  20. 

Rev.  Samuel,  20. 

Samuel  J..  20. 

Sarah  E.,  21. 

Susan  Coombs.     See  La  WHENCE. 
Danfobth,  Anne.     See  Bridge. 

Elizabeth,  11. 

Genealogy,  11. 

Nicholas,  11. 

Thomas,  11. 
Daviks,  Edward  II.,  73. 

Mabel  S.,  74. 

Mary  G.,  74. 

Susan  W.  (Bridge),  73. 
Davis,  Aaron,  •'!•"). 

Charles  B.,  73. 

Caroline  E.  (Bridge),  73. 

Dollard  or  Dolor,  G,  7. 

Eleanor  P.,  54. 

Elizabeth  S.     See  Gates. 

Elizabeth  (Smith),  63. 

Emily  M.,  54. 

Frederick  G.,  7:!. 

George  <  >.,  73. 

Georgietta  F.     See  Chapman. 

Henry  W.,  73. 

Horace,  '>. 

Jane  M.     See  Knowles. 

Kate  L.,  54. 

Lilian,  54. 

Mi  icy  (Church),  54. 

Mary  C.     See  Mi :xcv. 

Philemon,  54. 

Roswell,  54. 

Sarah  M.  (Gates),  03. 

Sarah  (Wetherby),  63. 

Susan  S.,  35. 

Susanna  (Shattuck),  35. 


Davis,  Vasbti  G.  (Bridge),  54. 

William  F.,  63. 

William,  63. 
Dean,  Amelia  (Gates),  03. 

Charlotte  ( Robinson),  63. 

Erastus,  <'>:!. 

William,  63. 
Delano,  Barnas  L.,  46. 

Elizabeth  (Grant),  40. 

Francis  P.,  4li. 

Lavinia  W.  (Ralph),  46. 
Di;  Mestbe,  Helen.     See  Williams. 

Prosper,  02. 
Devkns,  Ably  M.  (Fairbanks),  83. 

Agnes,  84. 

Agnes  D.,  84. 

Agnes  II.  (White),  84. 

Agnes  P.  (Elwood),  84. 

Arthur  L.,  84. 

Arthur  L.,  84. 

Arthur  L.,  84. 

Bessie,  84. 

Caroline  L.,  83. 

Caroline.     See  Morris. 

Gen.  Charles,  83,  85. 

Charles,  83. 

Cornelia,  82. 

Cornelia  (Fuller),  82. 

David,  82,  83. 

Edward  F.,  83. 

Elizabeth  M.,  83. 

Elizabeth  E.,  84. 

Elizabeth  (Miller),  82,83. 

Frances  P.,  82. 

Frances  P.     Set'  Sherborne. 

Frederick,  83. 

Helen.     See  Crocker. 

Henry,  82. 

Henry,  82. 

Henry  P.,  83. 

Horace,  84. 

Jane  C.  (Lithgow),  82. 

Martha  L.     See  Downes. 

Mary  (Lithgow),  83. 

Mary,  84. 

Mary.  8  I. 

Richard,  82. 


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INDEX   TO   NAMES. 


Devens,  Richard,  83. 
Richard,  83. 
Thomas  M.,  82. 
Winnefred,  82. 
Din-moor,  Augusta  M.,  26. 

Clara  Belle.     See  Kensard. 
Helen  F.  (Bridge),  26. 
Helen  Gray,  26. 
Josephine,  27. 
Madeline  I.,  26. 
Robert  M.,  26. 
William  B.,  Jr.,  26. 
William  B.,  Sr.,  26. 
Dodge,  Eliza  Anne,  27. 
Elizabeth  (Horn),  27. 
Eugenia  L.  (Jackson),  73. 
Frederick,  23. 
Dole,  Augustus  L.,  35. 
Augustus  L.,  35. 

Helen  C,  35. 

Paulina  S.  (Bridge),  35. 
Doten,  Charles  W.,  50. 

Charlotte  (Bearup),  50. 

Frank  L.,  50. 

Isaac,  50. 

Isaac  L.,  50. 

Rosella  (Clapp),  50. 

Susan  (Bridge).  50. 
Douglass,  Isabella  C.     See  Homes. 
Downes,  Lieut.  Albert  E.,  82. 

Caroline  L.     See  Hot. 

Jesse,  82. 

Marie  G.     See  Burnham. 

Martha  L.  (Devens),  82. 

Naomi,  82. 
Downing,  Andrew  J.,  65. 

Antoinette  (Starr),  04. 

Charles,  6-4. 

Charles,  65. 

Emily.     See  Ferry. 

Eunice  (Bridge),  63. 

Fanny,  65. 

George  W.,  64. 

George,  65. 

Harriet  N.  (Oakley),  65. 

Isabella,  65. 

Mary  (Wait),  64. 


Downing,  Mary,  65. 

Mary  M.     See  Harding. 
Oliver  Starr,  65. 
Samuel,  63. 
Draper,  Hannah  B.  (Vose),  69. 

Thomas  W.  M.,  69. 
Drummond,  James,  71. 
Laura  E.     See  Lowe. 
Martha  (Harrington),  71. 
Eames,  Caroline  F.,  22. 

Caroline  F.  (Howe),  22. 
Charles  H,  22. 
Delia  (Barker),  22. 
Hannah  (Shores),  22. 
Hannah  E.,  22. 
Henry  H.,  22. 
Joseph  E.,  22. 
Mary  E.,  22. 
Reuben,  22. 
Reuben  E.,  22. 
Sarah  E.,  22. 
Sarah  R.,  22. 
Sarah  A.  (Ames),  22. 
Thomas  H.,  22. 
Walter  A.,  22. 
W.  E.  (Haliday).  22. 
Eaton,  Hannah  S.     See  Eames. 
Mary  Bridge,  22. 
Mary.     See  Smith. 
Mary,  30. 
Reuben,  22. 

Rebecca  F.  (Wilson),  22. 
Sarah  Anne,  22. 
Sarah  Amu-,  22. 
Thomas  N.  B.,  22. 
Edmonds,  Augusta.     See  Bridge. 
Benjamin,  28. 
Eliza  (Russell),  28, 
Eliot,  Eliza.     See  Bridge. 
Hannah  M.  (Langley),  28. 
William,  28. 
Elwood,  Agnes  R.     See  Devens. 
Emlav.  Isabella  M.     See  Jackson. 
Martha  (Grant),  23. 
William,  23. 
Etjstis,  Alice  R.  (Knowles),  66. 
Warren  C.  66. 


INDEX   TO   NAMES. 


103 


Evangeline,  80. 

Fairbanks,  Abby  M.     See  Bridge. 

Benry  P.,  83. 

Mary  E.,  83. 

.Mrs.  Susan  J.     See  Kellogg. 
Faithki  el,  Emily  M.     See  Stabb. 

Frances  (Miller),  85. 

Frances  R.  (Lithgow),  84. 

Frances  L.  P.      See  Fansiiaw. 

Rev.  Francis  J.,  84. 

James  A.,  85. 

Rev.  James  G.,  84. 
Fanshaw,  Elizabeth  U.,  84. 

Frances  L.  P.  (Faithfull),  84. 

Irene,  84. 

Rev.  John,  84. 

Maurice.  84. 
Faulkner,  Benjamin,  32. 

Ellen  M.  (Bridge),  32. 

George,  32. 

George  S.,  32. 

Jennie  L.,  32. 

Louisa  J.  (Bridge),  32. 
Fatjnce,  Melinda  (Kendall),  46. 
Fellows,  Joanna.  65. 

John,  05. 
Ferry,  Charles  F>.,  64. 

Clarence  M.,  64. 

Charlotte  Simmons,  64. 

Edward,  64. 

Edward  S.,  64. 

Elizabeth  J.  Bradley,  64. 

Emily  Downing,  64. 

Emily  L.,  64. 

Frances  E.     See  Gardner. 

George  J.,  64. 

George  E.,  64. 

John  M.,  04. 

Lewi>  W.,  64. 

Louisa  A.  (Kee),  <'>!. 

Mary  E.  Knowles,  64. 

Mary  V.,  04. 

Mary  K.  Ritter,  64. 

Milton,  64. 

Paul,  64. 

Sarah  F.     See  Napier. 

Sarah  A.  Howe.  04. 


Fkukv,  Stella  L„  G4. 

Sylvester,  04. 

Virginia  Greene,  04. 

William  II.,  64. 

William  R.,  64. 
Fisher,  Thomas,  7. 

Dr.,  of  Beverly,  20. 

Anne  (Harrington),  20. 
Fisick,  Mary  (Saundcrson),  18. 

Mary,  18. 

William,  18. 
Flagg,  Isaac,  25. 

Lydia  (Child),  19. 

Mary.     See  Bridge. 

Rachel.     See  Bridge. 

Sarah  Bridge,  19. 

Sarah  Parkhurst,  25. 

Solomon,  19. 

William,  19. 
Forrest,  Alexander,  56. 

Edith  L.,  od. 

Henry  M.,  56. 

Jennie  M.     See  Bridge. 

Mary  Drummond,  50. 

Mary  L.,  50. 
Foster,  Charlotte  (Bridge),  75. 

Joseph  W.,  75. 
Fort  Halifax,  79,  80,  81. 
Fox,  Abigail.     See  Bridge. 

Alonzo,  33. 

Austin  E.,  33. 

Caroline,  33. 

George,  33. 

George  E.,  33. 

Benry  F.,  33. 

Jacob,  33. 

Lurana  (Bridge),  33. 
Foye,  Abigail  J.     See  Weeks. 

Climena  (Mosier),  2:3. 

James,  2-'!. 
Fbamdtgham,  15,  16. 

Academy  of,  •!:>. 
Freeman,  Annie  (Xesbitt),  62. 

Annie  C,  62. 

Charles  Stone,  62. 

Edmund  ]',.,  62. 

Elizabeth,  62. 


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INDEX   TO   NAMES. 


Freeman,  Rev.  Frederick,  02. 
George  A.,  G2. 
Gertrude  Shaw,  G2. 
Hartwell  N.,  G2. 
Capt.  Hartwell  W.,  62. 
Henry  B.,  62. 
Isabella  Williams,  62. 
Isabella  A.,  G2. 
Mary  A.  Bacon,  62. 
Hon.  Nathaniel,  G2. 
French,  Abby  D.     See  Ralph. 
Eliza  Drew,  46. 
Harrison,  4G. 
FulI/AM,  David,  52. 

Mary  A.     See  Bridge. 
Sophia  Jenkins,  52. 
Fuller,  Cornelia,  82. 
Cornelia,  82. 
Elizabeth  (Bennet),  37. 
Grayton,  37. 
Orris  E.     See  Bridge. 
Fundy,  Bay  of,  80. 
Gage,  Beatrice  L.     See  Bridge. 
Benjamin  F.,  40. 
Candace  S.     See  Bridge. 
Lauretta  (Huntley),  40. 
Ruth,  56. 
Gaines,  Amos,  34. 
George  S.,  34. 
Harriet  P.,  34. 
Henry,  34. 

Minerva  (Bridge),  34. 
Sarah,  34. 
Gammon,  Ephraim,  76. 

Hannah.     See  Bridge. 
Hannah,  76. 
Gannett,  Anne  L.  (Brown),  17. 

Rev.  Ezra  Styles,  17. 
Gardner,  Emily.     See  Vernol. 
Frances  Emily  (Ferry),  64. 
L.  W.,  64. 
Garfield  Family,  77,  78. 
Abram,8  77,  78. 
Abram,10  78. 
Asenath  (Hill),  77. 
Capt.  Benjamin,3  12,  77. 
Edward,1  77. 


Garfield,  Edward,-  77. 
Edward,10  78. 
Eliza  A.,10  78. 
Eliza  (Ballou),  77,  78. 
Elizabeth  (Bridge),3  12,  77. 
Henry  A.,1 '  78. 
Irwin  McD.,10  78. 
Pres.  James  A.,9  12,  77,  78. 
James  R.,10  78. 
Lucretia  (Rudolph),  78. 
Mercy  (Bigelow),  77. 
Mollie,10  78. 
Rebecca,  12,  77. 
Rebecca  (Johnson),  77. 
Solomon,6  77. 
Sarah  (Stimpson),  77. 
Lieut.  Thomas,5  77. 
Thomas,7  77. 
Gates,  Alice  P.,  63. 

Amelia.     See  Dean. 
Charlotte,  63. 
Damaris,  63. 
Emelia  (Bridge),  63. 
Elizabeth  B.  (Davis),  63. 
George  A.,  63. 
Hannah,  63. 
Maria  P.,  63. 
Sarah  M.     See  Davis. 
Stephen,  63. 
Zadock,  63. 
Zadock  W.,  03. 
Gault,  Anne  (Bridge),  27. 
Benjamin,  27. 
John,  27. 

Lydia  A.     See  Harris. 
Gerry,  Elizabeth  B.  (Vriiitcomb),  42- 
Nathaniel  II.,  42. 
Nathaniel,  42. 
Gibson,  Augustus  A..  67. 
Sarah  (Knowles),  67. 
George,  Susanna,  12. 
Gloucester,  Babson's  History  of,  43. 
Glover,  Josie  R.     See  Richardson. 

Henry  R.,  24. 
Gould,  Lieut.  Francis,  24. 

Mary  S.  (Richardson),  24. 
Gourley,  John,  37. 


INDEX    TO    NAMES. 


105 


GotKi.Lv,  Harriet  A.  (Bridge),  37. 

Mary  (Robertson),  ^7. 

Mary  E.,  37. 

Thomas,  37. 
Gi:am»  Pbe,  80. 
Gk.w,  Israel,  29. 

Meribah  <i.    See  Beidgb. 

Meribah  P.  (Garland),  29. 
Green.  Daisy  s..  48. 

Ella  J.  (H  48. 

Frank  II..  48. 

Bear  Admiral  Joseph,  48. 
Griswold,  Minerva.     See  Bridge. 
Hall,  Mary.     Sue  Coolldge. 
Haliday,  Cornelia  (Bridge 

William. 
Halifax.  Fort,  79,  80. 
Hall,  Bev.  Edward  II.,  12. 

Frank  Bockwood,  27. 

Harriet,  27. 

Samuel.  27. 

Samuel,  27. 

Sophia  King,  27. 
Hapwobth,  Helen  A.     See  Bridge. 

Mary  A.,  39. 

Simeon  G.,  39. 
Harding,  Abijah,  44. 

Rev.  Alpheus,  44,  52. 

Alpheus,  44. 

Alpheus.  45. 

Arthur  A.,  44. 

Bridge,  44. 

Charles  Proctor,  44. 

Daisy,  45. 

Edwin,  65. 

Ellen  M.     See  Newmah. 

George  W.,  44. 

Grace  E.     See  Philips. 

Josiah  B.,  44. 

Lillie  M.  (Hathaway),  45. 

Maria  P.  (Taft),  44. 

Martha,  44. 

Martha  Smith.     See  Bridge. 

Mary  M.  (Downing),  65. 

Sarah  (Bridge),  44,  52. 

Sibyl  Adams.  44. 

Sarah  S.  (Proctor),  44. 


Habding,  William  P.,  45. 
Habbington,  Anna.     See  Bridge. 

Anne  (Harrington),  20. 

Daniel.  12. 

Eleanor.     See  Bbldge. 

Eleanor  (Gates 

Elizabeth  (Bridge),  12. 

Joshua,  52. 

Joshua,  52. 

Mary.  30. 

Robert,  12. 

Susanna  (George),  12. 

Rev.  Timothy,  15,  20. 

Turner  C.  72. 
Harris.     See  Holmes. 

Ada  M.,  51. 

Benton,  Joel,  51. 

Catharine  P.  (Bridge),  51. 

Charles  B.,  51. 

Francis  Windsor,  51. 

Frederick  H.,  51. 

George  A.,  51. 

Joel,  51. 

Lilly  (Wait),  51. 

Lucius  L..  51. 

Lydia  A.  (Gault),  51. 

Mehitable  (Akeley),  51. 

Oscar  G.,  51. 

Stephen,  27. 

Whitman,  F.,  51. 
Hatch,  Asa,  38. 

Edith  S.,  56. 

Edward  E.,  56. 

Elizabeth,  56. 

Elva  Mae.  56. 

Florence,  50. 

Hardin,  56. 

Julia  A.     See  Dana. 

Lyman,  71. 

Mary  A.,  38. 

Mary  J.,  71. 

Pearl,  56. 

Susan  (Bridge),  56. 

Sylvester,  56.  , 

Syria  (Town),  56. 

William  I 
Hathaway,  Alice,  69. 


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INDEX   TO   NAMES. 


Hathaway,  Edmund,  69. 

Elisha,  62. 

Frederick  W.,  62. 

George  H.,  62. 

James  K.,  62. 

Phoebe  B.,  62. 

Sarah  W.,  62. 
Hathorn,  Amanda  H.  (Bridge),  50. 

Anne  (Estabrook),  50. 

Benjamin  E.,  50. 

Ellen  J.,  50. 

Flora  A.,  50. 

George  H.,  50. 

Nathaniel,  50. 

Susan  A.,  50. 
Hayes,  Augustus  A.,  20. 

Henrietta  B.  (Dana),  20. 
Haynes,  Caroline  F.,  71. 

Cornie  M.,  71. 

David,  71. 
Herrick,  Charles  E.,  45. 

Carlos,  45. 

Edward  L.,  45. 

Eliab  B.,  45. 

Elisha,  45. 

Maria  B.  (Bagley),  45. 

Mary  A.  (Raymond),  45. 

Mary  (Thome),  45. 

Sarah.     See  Blossom. 

Sarah  (Bridge),  45. 

William  B.,  45. 
Hill,  Philena  (Bridge),  34. 

William,  34. 
Historical  Society  of  Maine,  See 

Collections  of. 
Hodgson,  Annie  E.  (Homes),  47. 

Ellen  J.     See  Long. 

Harry  H.,  47.       . 
Holden,  Hannah  C.  (Page),  47. 

John  H,  47. 

Olive  Kendall,  46. 
Holmes,  Albert  L.,  51. 

Annette  (Harris),  51. 
Holt,  Anne  (Parks),  50. 

Jacob,  50. 

Susan.     See  Bridge. 
Holway,  Mary  S.  S.,  39. 


Holway,  Philip,  39. 

Susan  (Bassett),  39. 
Homes,  Annie  E.     See  Hodgson. 

Ella  Jane.     See  Green. 

Hannette  B.  (Currier),  47. 

Harry,  48. 

Herbert  B.,  48. 

Isabella  C.  (Douglass),  48. 

Josiah  M.,  48. 

Luther,  47. 

Warren,  48. 
Hooper,  Eliza.     See  Brown. 

Nathaniel,  17. 

Sarah  (Ingersoll),  17. 
Hotchkiss,  Hannah.   .  See  Prentiss. 

Hervey  A.,  44. 

Martha  B.  (Prentiss),  44. 

Thankful.     See  Prentiss. 
Howard,  Alfred  L.,  55. 

Amos,  55. 

Benjamin,  55. 

Blanche,  55. 

Editli  B.,  55. 

Emily  D.,  55. 

Jennie  G.,  55. 

Laura  (Boynton),  55. 

Maud,  55. 
Hoy,  Caroline  L.  (Downes),  82. 

Ellen  N.,  82. 

James,  82. 

James,  82. 
HunnARD,  Charles  J.,  72. 

Louise  S.     See  Jackson. 
Hudson's,   Rev.    Charles,   History  of 

Lexington,  10,  31,  41. 
Hudson,  Hezekiah,  27. 

Nancy  (Horn),  27. 

Nancy.     See  Bridge. 
Huntington,  Dr.  George,  76. 

Mary.     See  Bridge. 
Huston,  Emily  W.  (Bridge),  54. 

Robert  W.,  54. 

Sanford  K.,  54. 
Ingersoll,  Eleanor  (Bridge),  17. 

Nancy,  17. 

Capt.  Samuel,  17. 

Samuel,  17. 


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INDEX   TO   NAMES. 


107 


Ingeksoll,  Sarah.     See  Hooper. 

Susan  (Whittlesey),  17. 
Jackson,  Alice  B.     See  Arthur. 

Charles  T.,  72. 

Charles  F.,  72. 

Elizabeth  B.     See  Barber. 

Eugenia  L.     See  Dodge. 

Henry  B.,  72. 

John  Cotton,  72. 

Lidian  E.,  73. 

Louise  S.  (Hubbard),  72. 

Lucy  C.     See  Spencer. 

Oscar  R.,  73. 

Susan  (Bridge),  72. 

Susan  F.,  72. 
Jefferies,  John,  10. 

Nancy  (Bridge),  10. 

Nancy  F.     See  Ceeighton. 
Jennings,  Abner,  31. 

Patience  (Bridge),  31. 
Johnson,  Adaline  A.     See  Bridge. 

Adelaide.     See  Bridge. 

Adaline  (Bond),  40. 

Anne  E.  (Dyer),  38. 

Bowman  (Bridge),  01. 

James,  01. 

Luc}'  (Bridge),  3-4. 

Lyman,  34. 

Lyman,  38. 

Mary  L.  (Bowman),  01. 

Rebecca.     See  Bridge. 

Rebecca,  77. 

Dea.  Samuel,  77. 

William,  40. 
Jones,  Elizabeth.     See  Bridge. 

Mary,  30. 

Nathaniel,  30. 

Thomas  K.,  09. 
Josi/l  n,  Cyrus,  50. 

Edward  A.,  50. 

Luella  F.     See  Bridge. 

Lydia  (Leach),  50. 
Keith,  Olive.     See  Bridge. 
Kellogg,  Charles,  17. 

Charles,  17. 

Daniel,  16. 

Rev.  David,  16. 


Keli.ocg,  David.  17. 

David,  17. 

Edward  X,  17. 

Ellen  T.,  17. 

Eliza  P.,  17. 

Esther  (Smith),  10. 

Frederick  II.,  17. 

Gardner,  17. 

Gardner,  17. 

George  P.,  17. 

Mary.      See  KlTTREDGE. 

Martha,  17. 

Nancy,  17. 

Sarah  (Bridge),  16. 

Sarah  (Brown),  17. 

Sarah  (Prince),  17. 

Sarah.     See  Brown. 

Mrs.  Susan  J.  (Fairbanks),  17. 
Kelly,  Adaline  E.  (Bridge).  55. 

Charles  F.,  55. 

David,  55. 

Fanny  (Bloomer),  55. 

Frederick  E.,  55. 
Kelsea,  Hannah  (Bridge),  47. 

James,  47. 

John,  47. 

John,  47. 

William,  47. 
Kendall,  Alice  (Ilolden).  4<i. 

Azro,  46. 

Louisa.     See  Wright. 

Mehitable  (Bridge).  16. 

Melinda.     See  Faun<  i 

Olive.     See  HoldeN. 

Reuben,  40. 

Samuel,  40. 

Samuel,  40. 
Kennard,  Clara  B.  (Bridge).  27. 

Edward  P.,  27. 

Waldo  P.,  27. 
Kennedy,  Andrew.  33. 

Charles  P.,  33. 

Emily  (Perry),  33. 

Eva  I-'.,  33. 

Robert,  33. 

William,  33. 
Kent,  Agnes.     See  Bp.ii><.: 


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INDEX   TO   NAMES. 


Kent,  Arthur,  28. 

Elizabeth  (Martin),  28. 
Kiddee,  Benjamin  F.,  51. 

Benjamin  P.,  51. 

Charles  V.r.,  51. 

Hannah  (Bridge),  51. 

Lucius  L.,  51. 

Mary  C.  (Tucker),  51. 

Mary  C.  (Truphant),  51. 
Kilham,  Capt.  Abraham,  20. 

Alfred  A.,  20. 

Alfred  C,  20. 

Anne  M.,  3,  20. 

Austin  B.,  20. 

Austin  D.,  20. 

Betsey  L.,  20. 

Charles  A.,  20. 

Daniel,  20. 

Edward,  20. 

Eleanor  B.,  20. 

Elizabeth  (Gross),  20. 

Fanny  E.,  20. 

Hannah  F.  (Conant),  20. 

Joseph  C,  20. 

Louisa  (Bridge),  20. 

Louisa  B.,  20. 

Susan  C,  20. 

Susan  P.  (Chadwick),  20. 
Kimball,  Charles  H.,  69. 

Mary  B.  (Vose),  69. 
King,  Annie  F.     See  Bridge. 

A.  H.,  28. 

Cyrus,  73. 

Evelyn  A.  (Bridge),  28. 

Greenville  L.,  28. 

Hannah  (Stowe),  73. 

Loraine  B.,  28. 

Russell  E.,  28. 
Kingsley,  Alice  M.,  21. 

Chester  W.,  24. 

Ella  J.  (Richardson),  24. 

Moses  C,  24. 

Moses  C,  24. 
Kissam,  Clara.     See  Bridge. 

Philip,  75. 
Kitchen,  Anne  C.     See  Bridge. 

Elizabeth  (Christ),  76. 


Kitchen,  William  F.,  76. 
Kittredge,  John  B.,  1G. 

Mary  (Kellogg),  16. 
Knowles,  Alice  (Gilkey),  66. 

Alice  B.     See  Ecstis. 

Alice  B.,  67. 

Caroline,  66. 

Caroline,  67. 

Ellen,  64. 

Henry  L.,  66. 

Rev.  J.  H.,  04. 

Jane  M.  (Davis),  66. 

Joseph,  66. 

Joseph,  66. 

Joseph  D.,  66. 

Kate,  66. 

Mary  E.,  64. 

Sarah  (Lane),  66. 

Sarah  (Bridge),  66. 

Sarah.     See  Gibson. 

Seth,  66. 

Seth,  66. 

Susan  H.  (Curtis),  60. 

Winslow  L.,  66. 
Lamsox,  Cheney,  54. 

Laura  L.     See  Bridge. 

Lavinia  (Stowe),  54. 

Lucina  S.     See  Bridge. 

Mary  (Bragg),  53. 

Rev.  Samuel,  53. 
Laxgdox,  Hetty  G.     See  Lithgow. 

John,  86. 

Phoebe  (Seaman),  86. 
Latham,  Fanny.     See  Bridge. 

Joseph,  34. 

Judith  (Wells),  34. 
Lawrence,  Amos,  20. 

Sarah  (Richards),  20. 

Susan  C.  (Bridge),  20. 

Dr.  William  R.,  20. 
Ledyard,  Fanny.     See  Prentiss. 
Lehxe,  Caroline  J.     See  Bridge. 

Theresa  (Young),  4. 

William,  40. 
Lewis,  Solomon,  28. 

Eliza  (Elliot),  28. 
Lexington",  History  of,  10,  31,  41. 


INDEX   TO   NAMES. 


109 


Libbt,  Ichabotl,  25. 

Mary  (LeaTitt),  25. 

Mary  L.  (Bridge  .  26. 

Marie  L.     See  Catlix. 

Marion,  25. 

Mary  C.     See  Bckdick. 

William  H.,  25. 

William  P..  26. 
Lithgow,  Altagracia,  86. 

Amelia  Arzeno,  88. 

Amelia,  88. 

Ana  G.,  87. 

Ana  L.  ( Allonzo),  88. 

Ana  L.,  88. 

Ana  M.  (Pelegrin),  85. 

Col.  Arthur.  61,  82. 

Arthur.  82 

Arthur  W.,  -7. 

Artoro,  B8 

Charlotte    - 

Elizabeth  J.  iTappan),  88. 

Ellen  M..  87. 

Ellen  P.  (Pierce),  87. 

Ermina,  88. 

Eugenia,  88. 

Federico,  88. 

Francos.     See  Patsoh. 

France*.   See  Porchas  and  Bbea. 

Francis.  84. 

Frederick,  85,  87. 

Frederick,  80. 

Geor_      86,  -7 

Hetty  G.  (Langdon),  86. 

Jane  C.     See  Dbvkhb. 

John  L.,  86. 

Josephine  C,  88. 

Margaret,  87. 

Maria  A..  B7. 

Maria  M.  (Sigollen  .  B7 

Maria  A.,  88. 

Martha  (Bridge),  61,  79,  82. 

Martha  B.,  86. 

Mary.     See  Dbtbns. 

Mar;.     37 

Pablo,  88. 

Pablo,  88. 

Pedro  T.,  87. 


Lithgow,  Phoebe  L.     See  Willet. 

Robert,  7'.'. 

Sarah  (Noble),  61,  79,  82. 

Sofia  Arzeno,  87. 

Thomas,  86,  88. 

Washington,  86,  87. 

Washington,  88. 

Washington,  88. 

Col.  William,  61,  70.  B2 

William.  82,  86. 

William,  85,  86. 

William,  80.  87,  88. 

William,  86. 

William  P     37 

William,  88. 
Livebmoee,  Anne  (Bridge).  11. 

Grace,  11. 

John,  11. 

Samuel,  11. 
Lockwood,  Mary.  13. 
Lombard,  Abby  (Williams),  69. 

Allen,  69. 

Charles  A.,  69. 

Kate,  69. 

Sibyl  A.  (Farnum  . 
Long,  Ella  J.  (Hodgson),  47. 

George  J.,  47. 
Longfellow.  7. 
Lord,  Anne  (Bentley),  71. 

Benjamin.  71. 

Hannah  C.  (Bridge),  71. 

Jesse,  71. 
Louis  Philippe.  60. 
Lovett,  Eleanor  I.  (Bridge),  3,  25. 

Frank  P.,  25. 

Joseph  MrK.,  25. 

Josial    _' 

Lydia  (Ober).  25. 
Lowe.  Anne  (Cross),  71. 

Alice  F..  71. 

Anne  J.     See  Tilton. 

Edward  I.,  71. 

Edward  C.  71. 

Franklin,  71. 

Grace  M..  71. 

Hannah  E.      See  Wall. 

James.  71. 


110 


INDEX  TO   NAMES. 


Lowe,  James,  71. 

Laura  E.  (Drummond),  71. 

Mary  P.  (Bridge),  71. 

Nancy  N.  (Lowell),  71. 
Lowell,  Dennis,  71. 

Nancy  A.     See  Lowe. 

Nancy  (Joslyn),  71. 
Luxford,  Reuben,  10. 
Lynx,  Hannah  E.  (Smith),  22. 

Raymond,  22. 
McDoxald,  Bertha,  27. 

Henry,  27. 

John,  27. 

Mary  H.  (Bridge),  27. 

Rebecca.     See  Bridge. 

Rebecca  (Tollan),  27. 

Walter  Scott,  27. 

"Washington.  27. 
M(  Gie,  Daniel,  10. 

Elizabeth  (Bridge),  10. 
McKeex,  Rev.  Joseph,  43. 
McLean,  Daniel,  56. 

Mary  (Starrett),  56. 

Roxana.     See  Bridge. 
McLellan,  Charles,  65. 

Mary  R.,  65. 

Sabiah  F.  (Taylor),  65. 
McNear,  Catharine,  76. 

Ellen.     See  Bridge. 

James,  76. 
McNeile,  Jane.    See  Miller. 

Hugh,  85. 
Macy,  Caroline  (Carpenter),  26. 

Emily.     See  Adams. 

John  Hicks,  26. 
Maine  Historical  Societt.  See  Col- 
lections. 
Manford,  Rev.  Erasmus,  57. 

Hannah  (Bryant),  57. 

Mae.     See  Bridge. 
Manx,  George  W.,  27. 

Horace,  27. 

Maria,  27. 

Mary  Ellen,  27. 

Maria  L.  (Bridge),  27. 
Mansfield,  Abi  (Hartwell),  53. 

Dr.  Joseph,  53. 


Mansfield,  Susan  L.     See  Bridge. 
Mapes,  Susan  (Bruce),  34. 

W.,  34. 
Marble,  Abby  (Williams),  69. 

Manton,  60. 
Marret,  John,  10. 
Marshall,  Charlotte.     See  Bridge. 

Josiah,  74. 

Priscilla  (Waterman),  74. 
Matthews,  Charles  H.,  45. 

Paulina  S.  (Herrick),  45. 
Mercer,  Benjamin  F.,  50. 

Lucy  A.  (Bridge),  50. 
Miller,  Alexander,  85. 

Jane  (McNeile),  85. 

Frances.     See  Faithfull. 
Mitchell,  Alexander  W.,  76. 

Mary  Anne  (McDaniel),  16. 

Miriam.     See  Bridge. 
Morenci,  Caroline,  40. 

Isaac,  40. 

Mary.     See  Bridge. 
Morgan,  Belle,  55. 

Helen  P.,  55. 

Isaac,  55,  57. 

Jollie  I.,  55. 

Millard  H.,  55. 

Sarah  A.  (Marcy),  -55,  57. 

Stella  C.  (Bridge),  55. 
Moore,  Anne  J.  (Lowe),  71. 

Anne  N.,  71. 

Clarence,  75. 

Ellen  R.     See  Bridge. 

Francis  A.,  71. 

George  W.,  38. 

Lieut.  Henry,  71. 

Julia  (Bridge),  75. 

Julia  L.,  75. 
•Maria  T.  (Shannard),  75. 

Rebecca,  71. 

Samuel  W.,  75. 

Sarah  P.  (Leonard),  38. 
Morris,  Caroline.     See  Watson. 

Caroline  (Devens),  82. 

Lieut.  Charles  W.,  82. 

Com.  Charles,  82. 

Charles,  82. 


INDEX   TO   NAMES. 


Ill 


Morris,  Harriot  B.,  82. 

Maria  G.  (Misroon),  82. 
Morrison,  Almira  (Bridge).  40. 

EzeMel,  49. 
Morse,  Rev.  Asarelah,  48. 

Daniel,  70. 

Eirene.     See  Bridge. 

lhphzibah  (Hall),  48. 

Louisa  (Groat).  7". 

Nancy,  70. 
Morton,  Abbie  A.  (Stearns),  24. 

Alice,  24. 

Amanda,  24. 

Chester,  24. 

Harry.  24. 

Marcus,  24. 

Stephen,  24. 
Mttkct,  Montgomery,  54. 

Mary  C.  (Bridge),  -34. 
Munroe,  William,  11. 
Muzzey,  Benjamin,  11. 

George  E..  22. 

Mary  E.  (Smith),  22. 
NAPIER,  Earnest.  04. 

Edith  I...  64. 

Lillian.  04. 

Sarah  F.  (Ferry),  64. 

Virginia  E.,  64. 
Newiiall,  Augusta,  M2. 

Albert  II.,  44. 

Bernard,  -52. 

Bridge  B..  32. 

Elliot  (Bridge),  32. 

Emeline,  32. 

Henry  A..  :'>2. 

Jennie  Hopkins.  32. 

Martin  T..  32. 

Webster,  32. 
Newman.  Albert  L.,  44. 

Ella  M.  (Harding),  44. 
New-Towne,    First    name    of    Cam- 
bridge, 0. 
NicnoLS,  Amos,  29. 

Dora  (Bridge),  29. 

Lewis  I.,  29. 

Pamelia  (Gerry),  29. 
William  E.,  29. 


Nobijb,  Col.  Arthur,  79,  80,  81. 

Sarah.     See  Lithgow. 
Norris,  Hannah.     See  Bridge. 

James,  61 . 

Mary  X.,  61. 
North,  Hannah  E.,  4,  69. 
Hannah  Flagg,  68. 
Joseph.  I  8. 

Margaret  (Bridge),  68. 
Mary  (Duane),  68. 
Mary  C.     See  Weston. 
Gen.  William,  68. 
William  A.  S.,  68. 
Noyes,  Martha  Ada.     See  Bridge. 

Dr.,  28. 
Nte,  Elizabeth  B.  D.,  83. 

Elizabeth  J.     See  Sherburne. 
John  S.,  83. 
Page,  Abigail  (Burnham),  50. 
Arza,  47. 
Augusta  S.,  47. 
Edmund  L.,  50. 
Edmund,  50. 
Ella  M.,  47. 

Elizabeth  (Currier),  47. 
Elizabeth  A.,  47. 
Elmer  B.,  50. 

Georgiana  B.     See  Weight. 
Hannette  C.     See  Holdex. 
Jane  M.  (Haven),  50. 
Joseph  M..  47. 
Lucy  A.     See  Mercee. 
Lucy  L.  (Bridge),  50. 
Mary  F.     See  Tiiorxdike. 
Oscar  E.,  50. 
Susan  E.,  50. 
Paige,  Rev.  Lucius  R.,  7,  10. 
Paine,  Margaret.     See  Bridge. 
Margaret  (Morton),  09. 
Nathaniel,  69. 
Palfrey,  John,  11. 

Hon.  John  G.,  6. 
Palmer,  Hannah  F.     See  Bridge. 
Luther  S.,  53. 
Mary  D.  (Woodsum),  53. 
Parker,  Alice  (Thompson),  66. 
Alice.     See  Bridge. 


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INDEX   TO   NAMES. 


Parker,  David,  66. 

Francis  B.,  19. 

Dr.  Martin  S.,  10. 

Nancy  (Bridge),  19. 
Parsons,  Hon.  Theophilus,  68. 
Paysox,  Arthur  L.,  84. 

Charles  A.,  85. 

Capt.  Charles,  85. 

Clara  E.  (Peabody),  84. 

Clara  E.,  84. 

Edith  W.,  85. 

Fanny  (Washhurne),  85. 

Frances  (Lithgow),  84. 

Frances  L.,  85. 

Frances  R.     See  Faithfull. 

Francis,  85. 

Francis  L.,  84. 

John  L.,  84. 

Jeannette  G.,  85. 

Jeannette  Garr.  See  Washburne. 

Mary  F.  (Dahney),  85. 

Mary  D.,  85. 

Philip,  84. 

Ruth  (Larkin),  84. 

William  F.,  85. 
Peabodt,  Clara  E.     See  LiraGOw. 

Clara  (Endicott),  84. 

George,  84. 
Perkins,  Anne,  15. 

Anne  (Ames),  74. 

Anne  Foster,  15. 

Rev.  Daniel,  15. 

Eliza  Jane.     See  Bridge. 

George  TV.,  74. 
Perry,  Ada,<33. 

Chester  E.,  33. 

Ella,  33. 

Ellen,  33. 

Elvira.     See  Barr. 

Emily.     See  Kennedy. 

Frank,  33. 

George,  33. 

George  M.,  33. 

Henry  L.,  33. 

Hannah  C,  33. 

Ira,  33. 

Ira,  33. 


Perry-,  Isabella  (Ross),  33. 

Jane  S.     See  Spense. 

Minnie,  33. 

Nathan,  33. 

Pardon,  33. 

Sally  (Bridge),  33. 

Sally,  33. 

Sally  (Keating),  33. 

Stella  (Morse),  33. 
Peterson,  Edmund,  27. 

Harriet  H.  (Williams),  27. 
Philips,  Alice,  55. 

Cornelia  M.  (Bridge),  55. 

Edward,  55. 

Elma  II.,  05. 

Frederick  F.,  65. 

Grace  E.  (Harding),  65. 

Henry  Clay,  55. 

Hugh,  55. 

Nancy  H.,  55. 

Thomas  J.,  65. 
Pierce,  Abigail  (Comee),  15. 

Anna,  15. 

Asa,  15. 

Ellen  P.     See  Lithgow. 

Jonas,  15. 

Jonas,  15. 

Jonas,  15. 

Mary,  15. 

Sarah,  15. 

Thaddeus,  15. 
Pipetv,  Anne  P.  (Bridge),  52. 

Elizabeth  Bridge,  52. 

Harriet  (Carter),  74. 

Mary  E.  (Taggard),  52. 

Mary  E.,  74. 

Moses,  74. 

Solomon,  52. 

William  Taggard,  52. 

William  Bridge,  52. 
Porciias,  Francis  Lithgow,  85. 

Joachim,  85. 

Joachim,  86. 
Porter,  Mrs.  Mary.     See  Bridge. 
Pratt,  Anne  B.  (Alcott),  26. 

Caroline  II.,  26. 

Frederick  G.,  26. 


INDEX    TO    NAMES. 


113 


Pratt,  Frederick  A.,  26. 

Henry  M.,  26. 

Henry  M.,  26. 

John  B.,  26. 

John  S.,  26. 

Maria  J.,  26. 

Minor,  26. 

Sarah  M.  (Emery),  26. 

Theodore  P.,  26. 
Prentiss,  Fanny  (Ledyard),  44. 

Hannah  (Hotchkiss),  44. 

Harriet.     See  Welles. 

John,  43. 

John  Adams,  44. 

Josiah,  44. 

Martha  B.     See  Hotchkiss. 

Martha  (Bridge),  43. 

Mary  A.  W.,  44. 

Peter  B.,  44. 

Kebecca.     See  Welles. 

Thankful  (Hotchkiss),  44. 

William,  44. 
Prince  Edward's  Island,  80. 
Prince,  Sarah.     See  Kellogg,  17. 
Proctor,  Sarah  S.     See  Harding. 
Randal,  Alia  Amelia  (Bridge),  39. 

Charles  M..  39. 

Mary  E.  (Cole).  39. 
Ralph,  Amos,  hi. 

Daniel,  46,  50. 

Eliza  B.     See  Willakd. 

Elizabeth  (Bridge),  46. 

Lavinia  W.     See  Delano. 

Pluma  II.     See  Bowman. 

Priscilla  G.,  46,  50. 

Susan.     See  Bridge. 
Randlett,  Frances  P.  (Bridge),  61. 

Capt.  Gustavus,  61. 

Nina  F.,  61. 
Raymond,  Joseph,  53. 

Rhoda,  53. 

Sarah.     See  Bridge. 
Reed,  Abigail  (Kendall),  41. 

Major  Benjamin,  41. 

Elizabeth  (Russell),  67. 

Eliot.     See  Bridge. 

George,  41. 


Reed,  Hannah,  42. 

Isaac,  41. 

Isaac,  41. 

Isaac,  41. 

Joshua,  67. 

Mary,  41. 

Mary  (Bridge),  41. 

Mary  (Gardner),  41. 

Mary.     See  Bowman. 

Oliver,  41. 

Oliver,  41. 

Rebecca  Stone,  41. 

Reuben,  41. 

Sarah,  41. 

Sarah  (Poulter),  31,  41,  42. 

Susanna.     See  Bridge. 

William,  31,  41,  42. 

William,  41. 
Richardson,  Anna.     See  Bemis. 

Anne  M.  (Webster),  24. 

Eben,  24. 

Florence  Louise,  24. 

John,  18. 

Lester  M.,  24. 

Leonard,  24. 

Martha  A.     See  Bacon. 

Mary  S.     See  Gocld. 

Richard,  24. 

Sarah  F.  (Bridge),  24. 

Susan  (Waters),  24. 

William,  24. 

William  II.,  24. 
Ritchie,  Arthur,  74. 

Helen  W.  (Bridge),  74. 

Mary  II.,  74. 

Mary  (Hopkins),  74. 
Robinson,  Rev.  Robert,  74. 

Arabella  (Mason),  78. 

Elizabeth  T.  (Currier),  47. 

Franklin,  47. 
Rudolph,  Lucretia.     See  Garfield. 

Zebulon,  78. 
Russell,  Abigail,  13, 

Joseph,  13. 

Mary  (Bridge),  13. 

Mary  (Belcher),  13. 

Martha,  13. 


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INDEX   TO   NAMES. 


Russell,  William,  13. 

Capt.  William,  13. 

Dr.  William,  13. 
Safford,  Emeline  S.  (Lowe),  57. 

Joseph  A.,  57. 

Marietta,  57. 
St.  John,  Chauncy,  29. 

Margaret,  29. 

Sarah  (Mackey),  29. 
Sargent,  Agnes  M.,  54. 

Belinda  (Haynes),  54. 

Ella  M.  (Bridge),  54. 

Ellen  M.     See  Faulkner. 

Elizabeth  B.,  54. 

Harriet  M.,  54. 

Joshua,  54. 

Joshua  H.,  54. 

Louisa  J.     See  Faulkner. 

Mary  E.,  32. 

Nancy  B.,  32. 

Phoebe  (Bridge),  32. 

Thomas,  32. 
Saunders,  Mrs.  Elizabeth,  10. 
Saunderson,  Abraham,  19. 

Alice  (Badlam),  19. 

Anna  (Bridge),  19. 

Isaac,  19. 

Isaac,  19. 

Mary.     See  Fiske. 

Sarah  (Wheeler),  19. 
Sayer,  Henry,  34. 

Pamelia  (Bruce),  34. 
Sears,  Daniel,  72. 

Maria.     See  Harrington. 

Minnie,  72. 
Selectmen,  8. 
Shaw,  Robert  G.,  70. 
Shepherd,  Rev.  Thomas,  6,  7. 

Hon.  John  H.,  60,  61. 
Sherburne,  Caroline  H.,  82. 

Elizabeth  J.  (Nye),  83. 

Eanny  D.     See  Wallace. 

Frances  P.  Devens,  82. 

Hon.  John  H.,  83. 

Lieut.  John,  82. 

John  H.,  82. 
Shirley,  Gov.,  80. 


Simonds,  Calvin,  65. 

Emeline  B.  (Tyler),  65. 
Slayton,  Hannah.     See  Bridge. 

Hannah  (Stowe),  49. 

Samuel,  49. 
Smith,  Rev.  Aaron,  43. 

Ada  H.,  36. 

Alice  L.,  36. 

Almira  A.     See  Bridge. 

Andrew  G.,  22. 

Anne  S.  (Stocking),  38. 

Caroline  W.  (Draper),  22. 

Edwin,  38. 

Ellen  C.  (Bridge),  36. 

George  F.,  22. 

George  W.,  36. 

George  W.,  36. 

Hannah  (Watts),  35. 

Hannah.     See  Bridge. 

Hannah  E.     See  Lynn. 

James,  35. 

Martha  (Allen),  43. 

Mary  (Eaton),  22. 

Mary  E.     See  Muzzey. 

Matilda  (Owen),  26. 

Minnie  L.,  36. 

Nettie  Bridge,  36. 

Peter  G.,  22. 

Thomas  E.,  22. 
Smythe,  Abigail,  56. 

Mary  I.,  56. 

William  E.,  56. 

William  A.  S.,  56. 
Snow,  Daniel,  53. 

Philinda  N.     See  Bridge. 

Rebecca  (Abbot),  53. 
Spaulding,  Caroline  R.   See  Bridge. 

Eugene  H.,  49. 

Horace,  49. 

Jesse,  49. 

Rebecca  (Abbot),  53. 

Sarah  C.  (Bridge),  49. 

William,  53. 

Winnifred  (Swift),  49. 
Spear,  Anne  (Morey),  71. 

Cornie  M.  (Haynes),  71. 

David  D.,  71. 


INDEX   TO   NAMES. 


115 


SrEAR,  Capt.  David,  71. 

Emily  (Bridge),  71. 

George  F.,  71. 

Julia  A.  (Hatch),  71. 

William,  71. 

William  F.,  71. 
Spence,  Alexander, ;,':''. 

Jane  S.  (Bridge),  33. 
Spenser,  Enoch,  35. 

Capt.  James,  73. 

Lucy  C.  (Jackson).  73. 

Susan  G.  (Bridge),  35. 
Spofford,  Catharine  X.  (Bridge),  49. 

Merrick,  49. 
Starr,  Juliette  G.     Sic  Dana. 
Stearns,  Abigail  B.  (Bridge),  23. 

Abbie  Anne.     See  Moetoh. 

Corinthia.     See  Bridge. 

Ellen.     See  Chambers. 

George,  23. 

George,  23. 

George,  23. 

Mary,  23. 

Rebecca  (Russell),  23. 

Ruth  (Watson),  23. 

Sarah,  23. 

Sarah  A.  (Gibson),  23. 

William.  23. 
Stetson,  Anne  E.  (Weeks),  22. 

Clement,  22. 
Story,  Gen.  Charles  P.,  62. 

Daniel,  69. 

Rev.  Daniel,  69. 

Eliza  P.  (Vose),  69. 

M.  A.,  38. 

Sarah  W.  (Bridge),  38. 
Storr,  Caroline,  84. 

Caroline,  84. 

Edward,  84. 

Eleanor  M.,  84. 

Emily  M.  (Faithfull),  84. 

Rev.  Francis,  84. 

Minnie,  84. 

Vernon  F.,  84. 
Stowe,  Anne  B.,  51. 

Dora  G.,  51. 

Fluella  R.,  51. 


Stowe,  Hannah  (Webster),  51. 

Haven  P.,  51. 

Mabel  G.,  51. 

Pluma  (Bridge),  51. 

Solomon,  51. 
Story,  Amu-  E.  (Weeks),  22. 
Stratton,  Anne  M.  (Bridge),  7:'.. 

Florence  (•■.  '■'•. 

George  L.,  7). 

George  B..  7:'.. 
Strout,  Ada  B.  (Groves),  72. 

Elizabeth  (Bridge),  72. 

Frederick  Melvin,  72. 

George  F..  72. 

Maria  (Sears),  72. 

Robert,  72. 

Capt.  William,  72. 
Styles,  Henry  B.,  35. 

Rebecca  C.  (Bridge),  35. 
Symmes,  Elizabeth,  11. 

Rev.  William,  11. 

William,  11. 

Rev.  Zachariah,  11. 
Taft,  Arnold,  37. 

Eunice,  37. 

Eunice  A.     See  Bridge. 

Maria  P.     See  Harding. 
Tallyrand,  60. 
Taylor,  Charlotte  Abi  (Bridge!.  53. 

EmelineE.  (Cady),  53. 

Guy  Cady,  53. 

Hannah.     See  Bridge. 

Hannah  (Bishop),  50. 

James  M.,  53. 

James  C,  53. 

Luna  M.,  53. 

Simeon,  50. 
Teele,  Dr.  J.  Merle,  24. 

Mary  A..  24. 

Phoebe.  24. 

Samuel,  24. 
•      Sarah  E.  (Richardson),  24. 
Temple,  Robert,  70. 
Temple's  Settlement,  79. 
I'i.vm.v.  Benjamin  F.,  48. 
Frances  B.  (Yeazic),  48. 

Joseph,  48. 


116 


INDEX   TO   NAMES. 


Thokndike,  Dr.  Albert,  47. 

Albert  P.,  47. 

Bessie  L.,  47. 

Ella  A.,  47. 

Harriet  G.,  47. 

Mary  F.  (Page),  47. 

Willis  H.,  47. 
Tidd,  Joseph,  41. 

Mary,  41. 

Sarah.     See  Bridge. 
Tilden,  Bryant,  17. 

Elizabeth  I.     See  Brown. 

Zebiah  Cravath  (Brown),  17. 
Tilton,  Abby  (Freeman),  71. 

Albert  F.,  71. 

Anne  J.  (Lowe),  71. 

Rev.  Jeremiah  D.,  71. 
Tinker,  Dr.  Almerin,  57. 

Carolina  A.  (Vilas),  57. 

Lucy  M.     See  Bridge. 
Townsmen,  8,  9. 
Terrell,  Ariel,  19. 

Nancy  (Bridge),  19. 

Philemon,  19. 

Philemon,  19. 
Towle,  John,  34. 

Persis  (Bridge),  34. 
Tyler,  Anne,  65. 

Benjamin  F.,  65. 

Emeline  B.     See  Symonds. 

Franklin,  65. 

George  W.,  65. 

Joanna  (Fellows),  65. 

John,  65. 

John  F.,  65. 

Jonas,  65. 

Jonas  K.,  65. 

Lydia  M.  (Preston),  65. 

Louisa  (Elms),  65. 

Maria  L.,  65. 

Mary  R.  (McLellan),  65. 

Moses,  65. 

Rebecca,  65. 

Rebecca  A.,  65. 

Ruhama  (Bridge),  65. 
Upham,  Alonzo,  35. 

Adaline  M.  (Bridge),  35. 


Vandyke,  George,  38. 
Jane  E.  (Bridge),  38. 
Mary,  38. 
Thomas,  38. 
Vanpelt,  Hannah  (Stowe),  49. 

Sutton,  49. 
Vaughan,  Anne  J.  (Bridge),  27. 
Eliza,  27. 
Mary,  27. 
William,  27. 
William,  27. 
Veazie,  Alice,  48. 

Frances  B.     See  Tenney. 
Frances  S.  (Rogers),  48. 
Frank  B.,  48. 
Joseph,  48. 
Joseph,  48. 
Joseph  A.,  48. 
Judith  F.,  48. 
Nancy  (Bowman),  48. 
Peter,  48. 

Rachel  F.  (Bridge),  48. 
Winchester,  48. 
Vernol,  Clarence  A.,  64. 

Emily  (Gardner),  64. 
John  G.,  64. 

L.  W.,  64. 
Vose,  Alice.     See  Hathaway. 

Anne,  18. 

Bertha,  69. 

Charles  K.,  69. 

Eliza  P.     See  Stone. 

Eliza  P.  (Chandler),  69. 

Frank,  69. 

George  H.,  69. 

George  H.,  69. 

Hannah  B.     See  Draper. 

Horatio,  69. 

Isaac,  18. 

Kate  (La  Rose),  69. 

Margaret  (Saunders),  69. 

Mary  (Bemis),  18. 

Mary  B.     See  Baker. 

Mary  B.     See  Kimball. 

Mary  (Bridge),  69. 

Rufus  C,  69. 

Rufus  C,  69. 


INDEX   TO   NAMES. 


117 


Vose,  Rufus,  69. 

Solomon,  09. 
Wallace,  Fanny  D.  (Sherburne),  82. 

Mary,  82. 

William,  82. 

William,  82. 
Wait.  Phoebe  (1'hillips).  See  Bridge. 
Waldo,  Col.,  79. 
Waldron,  Isabella.     See  BRIDGE. 

Samuel,  54. 

Sylvia  (Patrick),  54. 
Wall,  Anna  L.,  71. 

Hannah  E.  (Lowe),  71. 

James  E.,  71. 

James  M.,  71. 

James,  71. 

Louisa  (Saunders),  71. 
War,  King  Phillip's,  13. 
Ware,  Rev.  Henry,  Sr.,  12. 

Lucy,  12. 
Washburne,  Gov.  C.  C,  85. 

Fanny.      See  PAYSON. 

Jeannette  (Garr),  85. 
W  ITERS,  Adam,  21. 

Amies  (Smith),  21. 

Anne.     See  Bridge. 

Daniel,  21. 

Rachel  (Draper),  21. 
Watson,  Abraham,  13. 

Abraham,  13. 

Anne  (Bridge),  13. 

Lieut.  Arthur  L.,  82. 

Caroline  (Morris),  82. 

Elizabeth  W.,  82. 

Eva  St.  C.     See  Bridge. 

Isaac,  13. 

Isaac,  13. 

John  L.,  82. 

Mary  (Butterfield),  13. 
Wellington,  Hannah  M.  See  Bridge. 

Nancy  (Stearns),  73. 

Nehemiah,  73. 
Weeks,  Ahhy  A.,  22. 

Abigail  T.  Foye,  28. 

Alonzo  G.,  23. 

Anne  E.    See  Stetson  and  Stort. 

Angeline  B.  (IIosea),22. 


Weeks,  Charles  H.,  23. 

Charles  H.,  23. 

Clara  G.,  2:', 

Daniel  P.,  23. 

Daniel  P.  P.,  23. 

David,  22. 

David  P.,  23. 

Eliza  (Ilosca),  22. 

Emily  J.  (Calderwood),  2:;. 

Fanny  1>.,  23. 

Francis  A.  J.,  23. 

Frank.  23. 

George  I\,  23. 

Harriet  II.  (Gilpatrick),  23. 

Isabella  M.  (Emlay),  23. 

James  S.,  23. 

John,  23. 

Lucy  Anne.     See  Barnev. 

Maud  L.,  23. 

Nancy  (Bridge),  22. 

Nathaniel  B.,  22. 

Rebecca  A.  (Boynton),  23. 
Welles,  B.  F.,  44. 

Harriet  (Prentiss),  44. 

Rebecca  (Prentiss),  44. 

William  E.,  44. 
Weston,  Rev.  Daniel  C,  08. 

Duane,  09. 

George  M.,  69. 

Henry  L.,  69. 

Mary  C.  (Bridge),  08. 

Mary  N.     See  Austin. 

Hon.  Nathan,  68. 

Paulina  B.  (Cony),  08. 

William  N,  69. 
Westwood,  William,  6,  7. 
Wheeler,  Anna  V.     See  Bridge. 

John,  39. 

Roxana,  39. 

Sarah.     See  Sanderson. 
Whitcomb,  Elizabeth  B.     See  Gerry. 

Hannah  (Bridge),  12. 

Dr.  Thomas,  42. 
White,  Agnes  II.     See  Devens. 
Abijah,  84. 

Anne  M.  (Howard),  84. 
Whitney,  Abigail  (Bridge),  13,  14. 


118 


INDEX   TO   NAMES. 


Whitney,  Abigail.     See  Austin. 

Anna.     See  Bowes. 

Benjamin,  13. 

Benjamin,  13. 

Deborah,  50. 

Ebenezer,  50. 

Elizabeth  (Lawrence),  13. 

Ellen  F.     See  Bridge. 

George,  13. 

Harriet  (Faxon),  29. 

Henry  A.,  14. 

John  and  Elinor,  14. 

Rosamond  E.  (Bridge),  50. 

Samuel,  13. 

Samuel,  14. 

Solomon  F.,  50. 

Thomas,  13. 

William,  29. 
Whittlesey,  Susan.    See  Ingeksoll. 
Wilcox,  Alice  R.,  37. 

George  R.,  37. 

Gilford  D.,  37. 

Helen  E.,  37. 

James  L.,  37. 

John  W.,  37. 

Ruby  E.,  37. 

Violetta  E.  (Bridge),  37. 
Willakd,  Abby  D.  (French),  46. 

Dr.  Ammi,  46. 

Eliza  B.  (Ralph),  46. 

Oscar  A.,  46. 

Symon,  6. 
Willey,  Phoebe  L.  (Lithgow),  86. 

Tolman,  86. 

Walter  J.,  86. 

William,  86. 
Williams,  Abby.     See  Lombard  and 
Marble. 


Williams,  Hon.  Daniel,  69. 

Edmund  B.,  27. 

Eveline  (Bridge),  49. 

Fitz  James  H.,  62; 

Hannah  Bridge,  69. 

Harriet  H.     See  Peterson. 

Harrison  B.,  27. 

Capt.  Hartwell,  62. 

Helen  (DeMestre),  62. 

James  H.,  62. 

Capt.  John,  27. 

Lydia  J.  (Bridge),  27. 

Phoebe  B.     See  Hathaway. 

Prospero,  52. 

Hon.  Ruel,  73. 

Samuel  G.,  69. 

Sarah  (Bridge),  62. 

Sarah  B.     See  Bridge. 

Sarah  L.  (Cony),  73. 

Sarah  J.,  62. 

Setli,  69. 

Zilpha  (In graham),  69. 
Winslow,  Gardner,  55. 

Maria  L.  (Gary).     See  Bridge. 

Mary  (Burns),  55. 
Wood,  Capt.  Edward,  61. 

Edward- H.,  61. 

Jonathan,  45. 

Mary  H.  (Bowman),  61. 

Mehitable.     See  Bridge. 

Sarah,  45. 
Woodbury,  Asa,  20. 

Mary  (Bridge),  20. 
Wright,  Anne  (Bridge),  44. 

Georgiana  B.  (Page),  47. 

Jackson,  47. 

Louisa  Kendall,  46. 

Rev.  Luther,  44. 


110 


CORRIGENDA   AND   ADDENDA. 


Page  17.     9.  5.  2.     End  of  the  line,  for  8.  42.  read  8.  4.  2. 
"     19.     Generation  sixth,  line  2,  for  Barns  read  Barns. 
"     24.     line  7.     Strike  out  and  Susan  Waters. 
"     27.     (11)  after  William  Bridge,  for  (44.  5)  read  (47.  8). 
"     36.     Instead  of  Abigail,    d.    Jan.    7,  1811,    read   Rev.  Jonathan,    d. 

July  25,  1856.     Abigail  was  b.  Jan.  7,  1811. 
"     42.     (7.  2)  for  Elias  read  Eliab. 
"     47.     32.  3.  2.     Arza  Page,  d.  in  Billerica,  Feb.  12,  1S68.     The  family 

afterwards  went  to  California. 
"     47.     32.  3.  2.  2.    Hannette  C.  Page,  m.  John  Henry  Holden.    Their  dau. 

Hannette  Josephine,  b.  Feb.  28,  1854,  m.  May  19,  1870,  John 

Jackson  Durham,  of  Kentucky,  who  d.  June  15,  1882,  aet.  41. 

1.  William  Thomas,  b.  April  14,  1877;  d.  June  19,  1877. 

2.  Alta  Belle  Clara,  b.  Aug.  20,  1378. 

3.  Louisa  Grace  Hortense,  b.  June  15,  1880. 

4.  John  Chesley  Gwaltney,  b.  Oct.  1,  1882. 

"  48.  33.  Josiah  Morrow  should  read  Josiah  Merrow. 
«  57.  After  Norman  Bridge,  for  (139.  2)  read  (129.  2). 
"     66.     40.  1.  4.     Ebenezer,  b.  May  21,1821 ;  m.  Maria  Lane;  d.  June  28, 

1880. 
"     67.     line  2.     Caroline,  b.  Nov.  20, 1816,  add  d.  in  Boston,  April  25,  1884. 
«     69.     59.  6.  1.  1.     Add,  he  d.  Dec.  31,  1883. 

"     72.     85.  6.  1.  The  children  of  Alice  Bridge  (Jackson)  and  Col.  William 
Arthur  are  : 

1.  William  Campbell,  b.  July  1,  1868;  d.  May  9,  1869. 

2.  Alice  Bridge,  b.  Nov.  20,  1869. 

3.  Susan  Elizabeth,  b.  Feb.  13,  1871. 

4.  Robert  Campbell,  b.  Feb.  3 ;  d.  Feb.  3,  1875. 


120  COKRIGENDA   A5D   ADDENDA. 

Page  72.     85.  6.  2.  The  children  of    Elizabeth  B.  (Jackson)  and   "William 
Barber  are  : 

1.  "William,  d.  young. 

2.  Alice  Jackson,  b.  April  21,  1S67. 

3.  Mary  Dunkin,  b.  March  20,  1869. 

4.  Henry,  d.  young. 

5.  The  children  of  John  and  Louise  S.  (Hubbard)  Jackson 
are: 

1.  Louise  Sewell,  b.  July  IS,  1S69. 

2.  Rossiter  Cotton,  b.  Jan.  31,  1873. 

3.  Henry  Hubbard,  b.  June  17, 1877. 

"     73.  7.  The  children  of   Lucy  C.   (Jackson)    and    Capt.  James 

Spencer  are : 

1.  Herbert  Rothwell,  b.  July  25,  1878. 

2.  Edith,  b.  Xov.  18, 1881. 

S.  The  children  of  Eugenia  L.  (Jackson)  and  Frederick 
Dodge,  H.C.,  1S67,  are : 

1.  Elinor,  b.  Aug.  27,  1879. 

2.  Eugenia  Louise,  b.  Aug.  2,  1881. 

3.  Lucy  Freeman,  b.  Feb.  21,  1883. 

9.  Oscar  Roland  Jackson,  b.  May  10, 1854,  add  H.C.,  1876, 
m.  Oct.,  1883,  Katharine,  dau.  of  Jonathan  and 
Anne  (Brazer)  Ellis. 


BRIDGE  GENEALOGY.  121. 


Addenda  and  Corrigenda. 


Page  ii.     Line  3.  for  Muzzay  read  Muzzey. 

17.      11.  7.  1.  4th.  line  for  Anne  Lizzie  read  Anne  Linzie. 
.::>.     28.  2.1.      Add.  Both  Henrietta  and  Augustus  Allen   Hayes  are  dead. 
Children: 

1.  Augustus  Allen  b.  Sept.  S.  1S37.  H.  C.  1S57.  in.  April  10.  1871, 

Emily  Roelker,  dau.  of  Wm.  Henry  Fuller,  and  niece  of  the 
Countess  d'O^soli  Margaret  Fuller.; 
1.  Florence  Rowan  b.  1S73. 

2.  Samuel  Dana.  b.  Oct.  1S40.  Succeeded  his  father  as    State    As- 

sayer.  m. — 

3.  Sophia  West,  b.  1S47.  m.  I.  Commander  W.  H.  Dana.  I"    S    N 

II,  Lieut.  Geo  E.  Sage  I*.  S.  A. 
20.      2§.  2.  2.      Add.  Both  Samuel  and  Mary  are  dead.     Children: 

1.  Henrietta,  m.  Geo.  H.  Lyman  of  Boston. 

2.  Gertrude,  m.  Sept.  1S44.  Herbert  Mason. 

3.  Samuel  Heber.  m.  Anne  Hartly.  and  d.  circa  1855 

20.  2S.  2.3.     Add.  Children  of  Richard  and  Juliette: 

1.  Richard  Starr,  m. 

2.  William  Starr,  m. 

3.   Juliette  Hannah,  m.  E.  L.  Yiele. 

21.  Line  1.     Add,  Abigail  F.  Dana  m.  Hon.  Seth.  son  of  the  celebrated 

Fisher  Ames.      Mr  Ames  wa- Judge  of  Supreme    Court   of  M  iss 

H.  C.  1825.  S.  H.  S. 
25.     57.  1.  Add    Eleanor  d.  in  Brooklyn,  December  7.  1SS4.     An  excellent 

woman,  tried  as  by  fire.   Her  husband  also  d.  in  Brooklyn. 
jS.     58.  3.  Marion  Libby  was  b.  March  16.  [857. 
2S.     S3.  1.  Read  Edward  Elliot. 
55,     75.  >j.   Elvira  R.  d.  June  1.  1846. 
36.     (15)  Insert  after  Rev.  Jonathan  Davis  Bridge,     I  ; 
3S.     (20)  Joseph  M.  wa^  b.  October  11,  1-  2 ; 
39.     (2$)  Capt.  Watson  W.  Bridge,  add.  d.  Sept.  6.  . 


BRIDGE  GENEALOGY.  122. 

Page  43.     Line  31,  for  goodly,  read  godly. 
"      46.     22.2.     Melinda.  m.  Eleazer  F  aunce. 

3.  Louisa,  m.  Carter  Wright. 

4.  Olive,  m.  Amidon  Holden.  of  Mason.  Michigan. 

5.  Reuben,  m.  Alice  Holden,  d.  in  Helen a,_ Arkansas ■ 

-i      47.     3.  2.  3.  6.    Elizabeth  Augusta  Page.,  b.  March  8.  1S42.     Add.  went  to 
Stockton  Cal.  in  Nov.  iS56,  m.  Dec.  28,  1S70,  Dr.    Willis   Eugene 
Spencer,  son  of  Willis  Eugene  Spencer  of  Fulton.  X.  Y.  b.    April 
4,  1829  and  d.  in  San  Francisco,  Cal.  Feb  7.  1SS2.  Four  Children. 
"     47.     3.  2.  3.  7.     Ella  Maria  Kimball  Page,  b.  etc.     Add.  m.  Dec.  11.  1S74. 
Winslow  Hall. 
47.    22-  3-  2.4.  for  Augusta  read  Angela. 

t,2.  3.  3.  Add,  Hannette  Bridge  d.  Dec.  10,  18S4. 

52.  (12)  Read,  Josiah  Bridge  m.  Sept.  21,  1S40. 
S3.  For  George  Worrell,  read  George  Worrall. 

90.  3.  Anne  Palfrey  Bridge,  Read  m.  July  10.  1S79. 
"      55.     (19)  Read,  James  Madison  Bridge.  d.Feb.  20,  1879. 
57.      [25)  Read,  Charles  L.  F.  Bridge,  b. January  16. 

(28)  Read.  Josiah  G.  Bridge,  m.  O2L  33,  1873. 

(29)  Xorman  Bridge,  Read  (129.  2)  m.  May  21,  1S74.  In  next  to  last 
line  read,  Member  of  Chicago  Acad,  of  Science,  and  Correspond- 
ing Member  of  Wisconsin  Acad,  of  Science.  Arts,  and  Letters. 

60.     Line  19.  Read,  he  d.  Sept.  10,  1S25. 

62.     21.  S.  1.  For  Helen,   read    Helen    Mary;  and   add.   she    was   b.  June 

23.    IS2S. 

'•      62.     21.  S.  i.  2.  Read.  Prosper  O.  b.  Jan.  S.  1855.  Add.  m.  Aug.  25.    1SS0, 
Florence  Mary.  dau.  of  James  Wilson,  Esq. 
1.     Doris  Marian,  b.  June  6,  1SS1. 
62.     Last  line,  add.  Officer  of  the  U.  S.  Customs  in  Boston  1S50-66. 
66.     First  line,  for  (7:  7)  read  (S.  8.)  Next  to  last  line,  for  Lane  read  Lam. 
70.     6.  4  4.  line;  5  an  1  6,  instead  of '-till  the  ohce  was  abolished  in  1862" 

read,  He  held  the  office  till  July  1.  1870. 
70.     76.  7.     Read,  Sept.  iS. 
'"      73      ( r3)   Second  line,  for  Paul  read  Reael. 
74.      103.  6.     For  Ruel  read  Reuel. 

•       75.     To  the  end  of  the  first  paragraph  add.  Mary  d.  February  28,  i836,  at 
West  Medford. 
75.     116.  6.     Frederick  William  was  born  Oct.  i),  not  Oct.  9. 
78.     Second  paragraph,  read  Hem.  Nov.  11.  1858. 

53.  S.     Add.  Capt.  Devens  d.  Oct.  1835.       "A  brave  and  energetic  offi- 

cer, a  man  of  singularly  attractive  and  agreeable  disposition." 
4.     5.  4.  2.  4.     Add.  Agnes  m.  Oct.  27.  iSS'x  Thonis  Mott  Osborne,  of 
Auburn.  N.  Y.     H.  C.  1SS4. 
84.     5.  5.  1.     Arthur  Lithgow.  m.  June  S,  1^52 

1 .     Clara  Endicott,  b.  June  7.  not  Jan.  7. 


TATUE  .:  .'BRIDGE. 


€ity  of  €ambribgc. 


ACCEPTANCE   AND   UNVEILING 


OF  THE    STATUE    OP 


JOHN  BRIDGE,  THE  PURITAN, 


TKESENTED   TO   THE 


CITY  OF  CAMBRIDGE,   SEPT.   20,   1882, 


SAMUEL  JAMES  BRIDGE. 


STATUE  ERECTED   ON   CAMBRIDGE  COMMON,   AND    UNVEILED 
NOVEMBER  28,  1882. 


1 


CAM  BRIDGE: 

TRIBUNE    PUBLISHING    COMPANY. 

1883. 


STATUE  OF  JOHN  BRIDGE,  THE  PUR1TAX. 


INTRODUCTORY. 

In  the  "  Genealogical  Register,"  which  forms  the  supplement 
to  Paige's  "  History  of  Cambridge,"  is  the  following :  — 

"  Bridge,  John  was  among  the  earliest  inhab.  of  Camb.  and  owned 
land  here  in  1632.  He  resided  in  1635  at  the  X.  E.  coiner  of  Dunster  and 
South  Streets,  and  soon  afterwards  owned  a  house  at  the  N.  W.  corner 
of  Holyoke  and  Winthrop  Streets.  About  163S  he  purchased  a  house 
near  the  spot  where  the  Washington  Head  Quarters  now  stand,  with 
twelve  acres  of  land,  and  resided  there.  He  was  early  elected  Deacon  of 
the  church  ;  was  Selectman  twelve  years,  between  1635  and  1052;  Rep- 
resentative four  years,  from  1G37  to  1641  ;  and  was  frequently  employed 
in  the  settlement  of  estates  and  in  determining  the  boundaries  of  towns. 
He  m.  Elizabeth  Saunders  1658,  (marriage  contract  dated  29,  Xov.  1658,) 
who  had  previously  been  the  wife  of  Roger  Bancroft  of  Camb.  and 
Martin  Saunders  of  Braintree.  He  d.  about  1065,  leaving  wife,  son 
Matthew  and  granddaughter  Dorcas,  dau.  of  S.  Thomas,  deceased.  His 
wife  Elizabeth  subsequently  m.  Edward  Taylor  of  Boston  and  was  liv- 
ing in  1685." 

The  subject  of  the  foregoing  notice  had  one  son,  Matthew, 
who  survived  his  father,  dying  April  28,  1700,  when  upwards 
of  80  years  old.  The  remains  of  father  and  son  were  deposited 
in  the  burial-ground  in  Harvard  Square.  Memorial  stones  were 
placed  over  their  graves  and  over  that  of  a  descendant,  Levi 
Bridge  (hereinafter  mentioned  as  the  founder  of  the  Bridge 
Charitable  Fund  in  this  city),  July  4,  1876,  by  Samuel  J. 
Bridge,  the  donor  of  the  statue  of  the  first  of  the  name. 

Shortly  after  the  city  of  Cambridge  was  the  recipient  of  a 
donation  from  another  member  of  the  family,  the  late  Mr.  Levi 
Bridge,  who,  by  a  deed  of  trust,  dated  Aug.  12,  1875,  gave  the 
sum  of  $"73.95,  which  had  been  deposited  in  the  Cambridge- 
port  Savings  Bank  in  the  name  of  the  late  Hon.  John  Sargent  as 
trustee.     It  was  stipulated  in  the  deed  that,  after  the  death  of 


4  JOHN   BRIDGE,    THE    PURITAN. 

Mr.  Bridge,  this  sum  was  to  be  transferred  to  the  city  of  Cam- 
bridge, and  a  statement  of  the  facts  relating  to  the  gift  was 
made  by  the  trustee  in  a  communication  to  the  City  Council, 
dated  Sept.  6,  187(3,  the  donor  having  deceased. 

By  the  provisions  of  the  deed  of  trust,  the  money  thus  given 
was  to  form  the  nucleus  of  a  fund  to  be  known  as  the  "  Bridge 
Charitable  Fund,"  to  be  forever  held  by  the  city  upon  this 
further  trust,  to  add  the  interest  of  said  fund  to  the  principal, 
until  such  time  as  said  fund,  by  the  accruing  interest,  or  by 
gifts  from  other  philanthropic  persons,  shall  amount  to  two 
thousand  dollars,  after  which  time  one  third  part  of  the  in- 
terest of  said  fund  shall  be  added  to  the  principal  annually  for- 
ever, and  the  remaining  two  thirds  of  s-uch  interest  shall  be  paid 
over  annually  to  the  overseers  of  the  poor  for  the  time  being,  to 
be  by  them  expended  for  the  deserving  poor  of  the  city  of  Cam- 
bridge, in  such  manner  as  they  shall  deem  best." 

The  donation  of  Mr.  Bridge  was  formally  accepted  by  the 
City  Council,  Sept.  27,  1876,  and  an  ordinance  was  subse- 
quently adopted  creating  a  board  of  commissioners  of  the  fund 
thus  established.  The  bank-book  was  delivered  to  the  com- 
missioners by  Mr.  Sargent,  Jan.  24,  1877,  the  sum  on  deposit 
then  amounting  to  $891.83.  In  the  month  of  October  follow- 
ing,  this  sum  was  doubled  by  the  gift  of  Mr.  Samuel  J.  Bridge, 
who  was  a  distant  relative  of  the  original  donor,  thus  making 
the  total  amount  given  to  the  fund  $1,783.66.  In  the  letter 
from  Mr.  S.  J.  Bridge,  dated  Oct.  15,  1877,  covering  the  gift 
made  by  him,  he  said,  referring  to  the  original  donation  by  his 
kinsman  :  "It  was  his  wish,  and  it  is  mine,  that  beyond  a  proper 
record,  there  may  be  no  unnecessary  publicity  in  the  animal 
distribution  of  the  fund,  nothing  that  would  have  a  tendency  to 
wound  the  pride  of  the  recipient."  In  this  communication, 
allusion  is  made  to  the  graves  of  his  ancestors,  John  and 
Matthew  Bridge,  and  of  his  kinsman  Levi,  over  which  he  had 
caused  the  erection  of  memorial  stones,  and  the  hope  is  ex- 
pressed that  the  city  "will  always  have  a  fostering  care  over 
them." 

Samuel  James  Bridge,  who  will  hereafter  be  especially 
remembered  in  this  community  as  the  generous  donor  to  the 
city  of  Cambridge  of  the  statue  of  the  first  of  his  name  in  this 


JOHN   BRIDGE,    THE    PURITAN.  0 

country,  is  a  native  of  the  State  of  Maine,  where  many  of  the 
descendants  of  John  Bridge  still  reside.  He  removed  to  Boston 
many  years  ago,  and  in  the  year  1841  was  appointed  by  Presi- 
dent Harrison  as  an  appraiser  in  the  Boston  Custom  House, 
where  he  remained  until  185(5,  when  he  was  appointed  appraiser- 
general  of  the  Pacific  Coast  His  unwavering  fidelity  to  the 
trust  reposed  in  him  by  the  Treasury  Department  while  appraiser 
for  the  port  of  Boston,  is  well  remembered  by  the  older  mer- 
chants of  that  city.  Mr.  Bridge  had  the  confidence  of  every 
administration  of  the  national  government  from  the  time  of  his 
appointment  in  1841  to  the  close  of  the  administration  of  Presi- 
dent Grant.  He  was  the  commissioner  having  charge  of  the 
erection  of  the  Custom  House  at  San  Francisco,  costing 
$5,000,000  ;  and  also  of  the  United  States  Mint  and  Marine 
Hospital  in  the  same  city.  In  his  later  years  he  has  travelled 
much,  visiting  every  quarter  of  the  globe,  and  by  his  rare 
powers  of  observation  has  made  himself  familiar  with  the 
characteristics,  institutions,  and  population  of  nearly  every  coun- 
try in  the  world. 

The  commission  to  execute  a  bronze  statue  of  John  Bridge, 
the  Puritan,  was  given  by  Mr.  S.  J.  Bridge  to  the  eminent 
sculptor,  the  late  Thomas  R.  Gould,  of  Boston,  in  the  autumn 
of  1881.  He  designed  and  modelled  a  statuette,  which  was  sat- 
isfactory to  Mr.  Bridge,  and  subsequently  carried  it  with  him  to 
Florence,  where  he  arrived  on  the  first  of  November.  Prepar- 
ations for  the  clay  model  of  the  "Puritan"  were  soon  after 
beo-un,  and  about  the  23d  of  November  the  artist  personal Iv 
worked  upon  the  statue  for  the  first  and  last  time,  also  giving 
suggestions  in  regard  to  certain  changes  desired.  Mr.  Gould 
died  on  the  26th  of  November,  1881,  and  the  completion  of  the 
figure  devolved  upon  his  son  and  co-worker,  Marshall  S.  Gould, 
who  devoted  his  entire  time  and  energy  to  the  execution  of  his 
father's  conception  of  the  "Puritan."  In  advancing  and  com- 
pleting the  work,  he  made  such  changes  from  the  small  model 
as  had  been  previously  suggested  to  him  by  his  father,  together 
with  such  alterations  as  every  artist  finds  necessary  in  making 
a  colossal  statue  from,  a  diminutive  study.  The  names  of  T.  R. 
and  M.  S.  Gould  are  thus  properly  connected  in  the  production 
of  the  finished  work, —  the  one  as  the  original  designer  of  the 


6  JOHN    BRIDGE,    THE    PURITAN. 

statue,  the  other  as  the  skilled  and  appreciative  co-worker, 
than  whom  none  could  have  more  fully  realized  the  father's 
conception  of  the  character  to  be  produced  in  monumental 
bronze. 

It  has  been  said  that  this  generous  and  artistic  gift  is  believed 
to  be  the  first  statue  of  a  Puritan  pioneer  that  has  been  erected 
in  New  England.  Through  the  pious  forethought  of  the  donor, 
it  is  also  the  first  sculptured  representation  of  one  of  its  early 
settlers  that  has  been  set  up  in  the  city  of  Cambridge. 

The  stormy  periods  of  our  early  history  have  heretofore  been 
commemorated  by  us  from  time  to  time,  and  such  localities  as 
have  been  rendered  historical  through  their  association  with  lead- 
ing men  and  events  of  the  past  have  been  marked  by  memorial 
tablets  placed  at  different  points  in  our  city.  To  Samuel  James 
Bridge,  now  for  the  second  time  the  city's  benefactor,  must  be 
accorded  the  merit  of  having  brought  to  our  view  the  linea- 
ments and  figure  of  the  Puritan  himself,  as  idealized  in  the 
artist's  mind. 


CITY    OF     CAMBKIDGE. 


Statue  of  John  Bridge,  the  Puritan. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Mayor  and  Aldermen,  Sept.  20,  1882,  a 
communication  was  presented  by  hi>  Honor  the  Mayor,  from 
Samuel  James  Bridge,  Esq.,  of  Boston,  offering  to  the  city  a 
bronze  statue  of  his  ancestor  John  Bridge,  one  of  the  first  set- 
tlers of  the  town,  and  an  active  and  useful  man. 

The  kind  offer  thus  made  was  met  with  an  appreciative  spirit 
by  the  City  Council,  as  appears  by  the  following  order,  which 
was  adopted  in  concurrence  :  — 

City  of  Cambridge, 
In  Board  of  Aldermen,  Sept.  20,  1882. 

Ordered,  That  the  statue  offered  to  the  city  by  SamuelJames  Bridge  he 
accepted,  and  that  the  thanks  of  the  City  Council  be  given  to  Mr.  Bridge 
for  his  generous  offer. 

Also  that  a  joint  special  committee,  to  consist  of  his  Honor  the  Mayor, 
and  Aldermen  Read,  Corcoran,  and  Fairbanks,  with  such  as  the  Common 
Council  may  join,  be  appointed  to  take  such  action  as  may  be  proper  in 


JOHN   BRIDGE,    THE    PURITAN.  7 

relation  to  the  reception  of  the  statue  and  the  selection  of  a  location  for 
the  same. 

Sent  down  for  concurrence. 

Attest :    Justin  A.  Jacobs,  City  Clerk. 


In  Common  Council,  Sept.  20, 1882. 
Concurred.   The  President,  with  Councilmen  Bent,  Pear,  Russell,  Doyle, 
and  Thorogood,  are  joined  on  the  part  of  this  board. 

Attest :        J.  Wabken  Cottox,  Cleric. 
Approved,  Sept.  21, 1882. 

James  A.  Fox,  Mayor. 


The  Joint  Special  Committee  thus  appointed  was  composed 

as  follows  :  — 

His  Honor  James  A.  Fox,  Mayor. 
Alderman  John  Read. 
Alderman  Michael  CorcorAx. 
Alderman  Johx  W.  Fairbaxks. 
President  George  H.  Howard. 
Councilman  George  C.  Bext. 
Councilman  Isaac  S.  Pear. 
Councilman  William  E.  Russell. 
Councilman  James  E.  Doyle. 
Councilman  Johx  G.  Thorogood. 

The  commitee  immediately  proceeded  to  the  duty  assigned  to 
it,  receiving  assistance  in  the  suggestions  of  William  S.  Bar- 
hour,  E«q.,  city  engineer,  and  Marshall  S.  Gould,  Esq.,  the 
sculptor.  After  visiting  several  loca'ities  in  the  vicinity  of  the 
former  abode  of  John  Bridge,  the  committee  finally  selected 
a  spot  deemed  suitable  as  a  site  for  the  statue  upon  Cambridge 
Common.  There  was  a  slight  delay,  owing  to  the  non-arrival  of 
the  statue  from  France,  where  it  was  cast,  and  on  account  of  the 
illness  of  the  donor,  with  whom  the  committee  wished  to  consult 
in  reference  to  the  location  to  be  selected,  and  whose  views  it 
was  desired  to  meet  in  the  fullest  manner. 

The  general  superintendence  of  the  work  of  locating  the  statue 
was  committed  to  Mr.  Barbour,  city  engineer;  the  labor  of 
putting  in  the  necessary  foundation,  placing  the  pedestal  thereon, 
and  setting  up  the  statue,  being  performed  by  Mr.  Alexander 
McDonald,  of  this  city.     The  granite  base  was  firmly  set,  and 


8  JOHN   BEIDGE,    THE    PURITAN. 

the  statue  placed  in  position  under  the  immediate  supervision 
of  the  sculptor,  and  the  work  was  completed  on  Saturday,  Nov. 
25th,  after  which  it  was  covered  to  await  the  inauguration  cere- 
monies. The  statue  is  located  in  that  part  of  Cambridge  Com- 
mon, near  the  junction  of  North  Avenue  and  Waterhouse  Street, 
and  faces  in  a  nearly  southerly  direction,  looking  towards  the 
College  grounds.  The  figure  is  about  nine  feet  in  height,  and 
that  of  the  pedestal  about  the  same,  the  entire  structure  being 
about  eighteen  feet  from  the  foundation. 

The  day  of  the  formal  acceptance  and  unveiling  of  the  "  Puri- 
tan" was  fixed  for  Tuesday,  Nov.  28th,  at  3  o'clock,  p.  m.  It 
was  intended  by  the  committee  that  the  ceremonies  should  take 
place  around  the  base  of  the  statue,  but  a  fall  of  snow  and  sub- 
sequent cold  weather  intervening,  it  was  decided  to  ask  that 
Shepard  Memorial  Church,  on  Garden  Street,  opposite  the  Com- 
mon, be  opened  for  the  purpose.  The  attention  of  the  public 
had  been  called  to  the  occasion,  through  the  various  local  news- 
papers, all  being  invited,  while  special  invitations  were  also  sent 
to  a  large  number  of  prominent  citizens  and  others.  A  special 
form  of  invitation  was  also  sent  by  the  donor  to  the  descendants 
of  John  Bridge,  numbering  as  far  as  known  one  hundred  and 
thirteen  in  all,  including  one  infant  seven  months  old,  of  the 
ninth  generation  from  his  ancestor. 

CITY    OIF    CA-DVEIBIRIIIIDa-IE]. 


This  city  invites  you  to  be  fresent,  at  Cambridge  Common,  on 
Tuesday,  November  2,8th,  at  3  T.  M.,  at  the  ceremonies  attending 
the  acceptance  of  a  statue  of 

JOHN  BRID&E; 

one  of  the  founders  of  the  town,  presented  to  the  city  by  Samuel 
James  (Bridge,  a  descendant  in  the  sixth  generation. 
For  the  Committee  of  Arrangements, 

JAMES  A.  FOX,  Mayor. 

Cambridge,  Nov,  2D,  1332. 


JOHN   BRIDGE,    THE    PURITAN. 


CITY    OIF1    C^AZMUB^UDG-IE. 


This  city  invites  the  descendants  of  John  (Bridge,  one  of  its 
founders,  to  be  present  at  Cambridge  Common,  on  Tuesday, 
Nov.  2,8th,  at  3  P.  M.,  at  the  ceremonies  attending  the  acceptance 
of  a  statue  of  their  ancestor,  presented  to  the  city  by 

SAMUEL  JAMES  BRIDGE, 

a  descendant  in  the  sixth  generation. 

For  the  Committee  of  Arrangements, 

JAMES  A.  FOX,  Mayor. 

Cambridge,  Mass.,  Nov.  2D,  1BB2. 

The  invitations  to  descendants  of  John  Bridge  were  sent  to 
the  following :  — 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES. 

Samuel  James  Bridge San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Xathan  William  Bridge      .     .     .  West  Medford,  Mass. 

Jane  P.  Bridge Sontcrcille,  Mass. 

Edmund  Bridge West  Medford,  Mass. 

Frederick  William  Bridge West  Medford,  Muss. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Bridge Augusta.  Me. 

Susan  Williams  Bridge Augusta,  Me. 

Margaret  Xorth  Bridge Augusta,  Me. 

Sarah  Cony  Bridge Augusta,  Me. 

Buel  Williams  Bridge Augusta,  Me. 

James  Bridge,  Jr Atlanta,  Ga. 

Horatio  Bridge New  York  City. 

Joseph  Hartwell  Bridge LeeuhiUe,  Coloraelo. 

Hannah  Xorth  Bridge Geneva,  N.  Y. 

Anna  Frazier  Bridge Geneva,  If.  Y. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Bridge West  Medford,  Mass. 

Henry  Sauuders  Bridge Wesp  Medford,  Mass. 

Edward  \V.  Bridge West  Medford,  Mass. 

Helen  W.  Hitchie Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Lucy  Perkins  Bridge West  Medford,  Mass. 

Eliza  Putnam  Stone Boston,  Mass. 

Mary  Bridge  Yose Colorado. 

Hannah  Xorth  Yose Colorado. 

Chandler  Yose Colorado. 

George  Howe  Yose California. 


10  JOHN    BRIDGE,    THE    PURITAN. 

XAjrES.  RESIDENCES. 

Hannah  Bridge  Williams Augusta,  Me. 

Abby  Williams  Marble New  York  City. 

Horatio  Bridge Washington,  D.  C. 

Charlotte  Marshall  Bridge Washington,  D.  C. 

Margaret  North New  York  City. 

Hannah  E.  North New  York  City. 

George  Weston New  York  City. 

Mary  Austin New  York  City. 

William  F.  Bridge Fosters  Crossings,  Ohio. 

James  Crosby  Bridge Fosters  Crossings,  Ohio. 

Elizabeth  Crosby  Bridge Exeter,  N.  FL. 

Henry  Whitney  Bridge Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

William  E.  Bridge,  Jr Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

Herbert  Sage  Bridge Cincinnati.  Ohio. 

Catherine  May  Bridge Foster's  Crossings,  Ohio. 

Walter  Guild  Bridge Foster's  Crossings,  Ohio. 

Josiah  Bridge Cambridge,  Mass. 

Mrs.  William  T.  Piper Cambridge,  Mass. 

Charles  Bridge Albany,  N.  Y. 

Charles  Francis  Bridge Albany.  N.  Y. 

Erastus  T.  Bridge Haverhill  Mass. 

Mrs.  Samuel  Bridge Cambridge,  Mass. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  O.  Davis Lexington,  Mass. 

Frederic  Gardner  Davis Lexington,  Mass. 

Charles  Bridge  Davis Lexington,  Mass. 

Harry  Wellington  Davis Lexington,  Mass. 

Alice  C  Baker Cambridge.  Mass. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  L.  Stratton Concord,  N.  H. 

Florence  Gardner  Stratton Concord,  N.  H. 

George  Bridge  Stratton Concord.  N.  H. 

Charles  Devens Boston.  Mass. 

Thomas  M.  Devens Charlestown,  Mass. 

Martha  Lithgow  Downes Charlestown,  Mass. 

Caroline  Devens  Morris Portsmouth.  X.  H. 

Henry  Devens Brattleboro,  Vt. 

Francis  Payson  Sherburn Charlestown,  Mass. 

Edward  F.  Devens Charlestown,  Mass. 

Helen  Devens  Crocker Charlestown,  Mass. 

Richard  Devens Washington,  D.  C. 

Mrs.  Arthur  L.  Devens Cambridge.  Mass. 

Mary  Devens Cambridge.  Mass. 

Arthur  Lithgow  Devens Cambridge.  Mass. 

Agnes  Devens Cambridge,  Mass. 

Frank  Pa v son New  York  City. 

Charles  Payson Washington,  B.^C. 

Francis  Faithful Brighton.  England. 

James  IS.  Bowman Council  Bluffs,  Lowa. 


JOHN    BRIDGE,    THE    PURITAN.  11 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES. 

Lizzie  Y.  Bowman Wiscasset,  Me. 

M.  W.  Bridge Providence,  B.  I. 

W.  W.  Bridge FPtZ&raftam,  Mass. 

M.  Wells  Bridge Sprinujhld.  Mass. 

Benjamin  B.  Bridge East  J I  rook  ridd,  Mass. 

Jesse  P.  Bridge Meriden,  Conn. 

Charles  A.  Bridge Boston,  Mass. 

C.  S.  Bridge Boston,  Most. 

Mrs.  Sarah  Knowles  Gibson Boston,  Mass. 

Caroline  Knowles Boston,  Mass. 

Mrs.  Rebecca  Bridge Boston.  Mass. 

Mrs.  Abel  E.  Bridge Wattham,  Mass. 

Theodore  E.  Bridge Boston,  Mass. 

Mrs.  C.  T.  Jackson Concord,  Mass. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frederick  Dodge Concord,  Mass. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Arthur  Mayor,  U.  S.  A.  Governor's  Island,  JV.  Y. 

John  Jackson Boston,  Mass. 

Lillie  Jackson Concord,  Mass. 

Charles  Jackson Concord,  Mass. 

Mrs.  Stephen  Barrett,  Jr Ayer  Junction,  Mass. 

Mathew  Bridge San  Francisco,  Cal. 

William  D.  Bridge New  Haven,  Conn. 

Mrs.  William  Barber San  Rafael,  Cal. 

Wm.  H.  Bridge Mo,  hh  head,  Mass. 

Bobert  Bridge Marblehead,  Moss 

Edward  Bridge Marblehead.  Moss. 

Mrs.  Isabella  Freeman Sandwich,  Mass. 

Bowman  B.  Johnson Dresden,  Me. 

Elizabeth  W.  Gerry East  Lexington,  Mass. 

Charles  Downing Newburg,  N.  Y. 

Henry  Garfield Cleveland,  Ohio. 

William  Garfield Cleveland,  Ohio. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  McDonald Boston,  Mass. 

John  H.  Sherburne Boston,  Mass. 

Charles  Morris U.  S.  Arm;/. 

Caroline  L.  Hoy Washington,  B.  C. 

Gertrude  M.  Burnham Lowell,  Mass. 

Caroline  Watson Charlt  stown,  Moss. 

John  W.  Bridge Lawrence,  Mass. 

John  W.  Bridge,  Jr Laurence  Mass. 

Benjamin  Hartwell  Bridge Lawrence,  Mass. 

[Seven  mouths  old,  in  the  ninth  generation  from  John  Bridge.] 

Unveiling  of  the  Statue. 

The  services  connected  with  the  unveiling  of  the  statue  of  the 
"Puritan"  on  Cambridge  Common  were  held,  in  accordance  with 


12  JOHN    BRIDGE,    THE    PURITAN. 

previous  arrangement,  in  Shepard  Memorial  Church,  the  mem- 
bers of  the  city  government,  invited  guests,  and  citizens  gen- 
erally assembling  informally  at  the  hour  appointed. 

The  church  was  well  filled,  among  the  audience  there  being 
many  distinguished  citizens,  conspicuous  among  whom  was  the 
venerable  donor.  There  were  also  numerous  other  descendants 
of  John  Bridge,  including  Nathan  William  Bridge,  Esq., 
of  West  Medford,  Mass.,  and  Judge  Charles  Devens,  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Massachusetts. 

Services. 

The  opening  exercise  w7as  the  performance  of  a  voluntary  on 
the  organ  by  Edwin  L.  Gurney,  organist  of  Broadway  (Cam- 
bridge) Baptist  Church,  at  the  conclusion  of  which  Alderman 
John  Read,  chairman  of  the  committee  of  arrangements,  made 
the  following  announcement :  — 

Fellow  Citizens  and  Guests  : — ^Ye  are  assembled  at  this  time  for 
the  acceptance  of  the  statue  of  John  Bridge,  the  Puritan.  I  invite  the 
Rev.  Dr.  Alexander  McKenzie  to  invoke  the  divine  blessing. 

Rev.  Alexander  McKenzie,  D.  D.,  of  the  Shepard  Memorial 
Church,  then  offered  prayer,  at  the  conclusion  of  which  the  audi- 
ence joined  in  singing  the  following  hymn,  accompanied  by 
the  organ  :  — 

HYMN  BY  REV.   LEONARD  BACON,  D.  D. 

O  God,  beneath  thy  guiding  hand, 

Our  exiled  fathers  crossed  the  sea ; 
And  when  they  trod  the  wintry  strand, 

With  prayer  and  psalm  they  worshipped  thee. 

Thou  heard'st  well  pleased  the  song,  the  prayer: 

Thy  blessing  came  ;  and  still  its  power 
Shall  onward  through  all  ages  bear 

The  memory  of  that  holy  hour. 

Laws,  freedom,  truth,  and  faith  in  God 

Came  with  those  exiles  o'er  the  waves  ; 
And  where  their  pilgrim  feet  have  trod, 

The  God  they  trusted  guards  their  graves. 

And  here  thy  name,  O  God  of  love, 

Their  children's  children  shall  adore, 
Till  these  eternal  hills  remove, 

And  spring  adorns  the  earth  no  more. 


JOHN    BRIDGE,    THE    PURITAN.  13 

Alderman  Read  :  — 

"  The  statue  which  will  he  unveiled  immediately  after  these  exercises 
is  the  work  of  the  late  Thomas  R.  Gould,  completed  by  his  son.  It  is 
of  one  who,  having  held  offices  of  high  trust,  was  a  representative  man  of 

the  early  times.  Samuel  J.  Bridge,  a  descendant  in  the  sixth  generation, 
has  made  this  gift  to  the  city  of  Cambridge,  ami  his  letter  of  presentation 
will  now  he  read  by  George  H.  Howard  Esq.,  the  President  of  the  Com- 
mon Council." 

President  George  H.  Howard  then  read  the  following  letter: 

Boston,  Sept.  20, 1882. 
To  the  Honorable  James  A.  Fox, 

Mayor  of  Cambridge: 

Sir, — I  beg  to  offer  to  the  city  of  Cambridge,  through  you,  a  bronze 
statue  of  my  ancestor,  John  Bridge,  one  of  the  first  settlers  in  the  town, 
and  a  man  useful  and  influential  in  his  day  and  generation. 

The  sculptor,  the  late  Mr.  T.  R.  Gould,  has  tried  to  figure  forth  the  Puri- 
tan pioneer,  and  upon  the  pedestal  for  the  statue  I  have  caused  to  be 
described  the  typical  services  and  character  Avhich  seem  to  me  to  make 
John  Bridge  worthy  of  lasting  commemoration. 

If  the  City  Council  accepts  this  offer,  I  shall  ask  leave  to  set  up  the 
statue  in  one  of  the  public  squares  of  Old  Cambridge,  the  exact  site  to  be 
determined  in  whatever  way  may  seem  to  the  Council  suitable. 

I  have  the  honor  to  be.  Sir,  with  respect, 

Your  obedient  servant, 

Samuel  James  Bridge. 

Mayor  Fox  accepted  the  statue  in  behalf  of  the  city  as  fol- 
low*; :  — 

Fellow  Citizens  :  — From  the  communication  of  Mr.  Samuel  James 
Bridge,  dated  Sept.  20th  last,  to  which  you  have  just  listened,  you  are 
informed  that  that  gentleman  —  not  now  for  the  first  time,  I  may  say,  a 
liberal  donor  to  us,  and  happily  present  with  us  to-day  — has  presented 
this  statue  of  his  sturdy  and  heroic  ancestor  to  the  city  of  Cambridge, — 
believed  to  be  the  first  statue  in  Puritan  garb  that  has  been  erected  in 
New  England. 

"With  becoming  acknowledgment,  the  generous  and  artistic  gift  was 
promptly  accepted  by  our  City  Council,  and  now  being  set  up  on  our  prin- 
cipal public  ground  not  far  from  the  spot  of  his  early  home  on  Dunster 
Street,  we  have  assembled  together  formally  to  accepl  the  finished  work. 

It  gives  me  great  pleasure  to  be  the  recipient,  in  behalf  of  the  corpora- 
tion and  the  citizens  at  large  of  Cambridge,  of  this  statue  of  one  of  the 
early  Puritans  and  settlers  of  our  ancient  and  favored  town  from  one 
his  worthy  descendants  in  the  sixth  generation. 


14  JOHN   BRIDGE,    THE    PURITAN. 

John  Bridge  must  indeed  have  been  "  a  man  useful  and  influential  in 
his  day  and  generation."  Born  in  157S  in  old  Braintree,  in  Essex  County, 
England,  during  the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth  of  brilliant  fame,  he 
came  in  1631,  at  the  mature  age  of  fifty-three,  and  settled  here,  as  the  in- 
scription upon  the  pedestal  states.  He  was  our  original  supervisor  of  the 
public  school,  first  townsman  or  selectman  for  twenty-three  years,  repre- 
sentative to  the  Great  and  General  Court  for  four  years,  and  was  appointed 
by  that  body  to  lay  out  lands  in  this  town  and  beyond. 

"We  find  his  name  prominently  mentioned  in  the  early  records  of  the 
town  in  connection  with  those  of  Dunster,  Hooker.  Shepard,  and  others. 

"  Among  the  reasons,"  says  the  Rev.  Thomas  Shepard,  "  which  swayed 
me  to  come  to  New  England,  divers  people  in  Old  England  of  my  dear 
friends  desired  me  to  come  here  to  live  together,  and  some  went  before 
and  writ  to  me  of  finding  a  place,  one  of  which  was  John  Bridge." 

But  I  will  not  go  into  detail  on  these  points,  and  thus  encroach  upon  the 
province  of  the  accomplished  gentlemen  who  are  to  follow  me,  and  who 
will  illustrate  the  lives  and  the  times  of  our  Puritan  progenitors  much  more 
ably  than  I  can  do. 

It  is  surely  well  to  "  remember  the  days  of  old,"  and  the  men  as  well, 
who,  by  their  sacrifices  in  any  department  of  human  endeavor  or  toil, 
have  set  forward  the  state  of  human  progress  on  earth  ;  and  it  is  particu- 
larly fitting  to  erect  statues  to  perpetuate  the  forms,  the  character,  and 
the  labors  of  our  Puritan  ancestors,  that  coming  generations  as  they  rise 
may  not  forget  those  devoted  pioneers  of  freedom  in  religious  truth  and 
observances  who  preferred  to  emigrate  to  an  unknown  and  inhospitable 
land,  where  they  might  worship  God  according  to  the  dictates  of  their 
own  consciences,  rather  than  to  wage  a  long  and  doubtful  conflict  with  the 
strongly  entrenched  ecclesiastical  system  of  England,  united  as  it  was 
to  the  complete  civil  power  of  the  kingdom. 

The  Puritans  brought  to  this  land  the  highest  principles  of  religious  and 
civil  liberty  ;  and  if  we  would  witness  the  ultimate  outcome  of  their  prin- 
ciples, we  may  well  say,  with  the  epitaph  in  St.  Paul's  Cathedral,  London, 
on  the  great  architect  of  that  church,  "  Look  around  you." 

This  statue  has  been  executed  by  an  American  artist  of  genius  and  ex- 
quisite taste,  of  whom  we  have  good  reason  to  be  proud,  the  late  Thomas 
R.  Gould,  a  native  .of  Boston,  but  who  long  dwelt  and  wrought  in 
Florence,  Italy.  His  untimely  death  left  the  unfinished  work  to  his  son, 
Mr.  Marshall  S.  Gould,  who  has  admirably  and  successfully  completed  the 
original  design  of  his  father.  The  elder  artist  has  impressed  his  genius 
upon  many  portrait  statues  and  busts  in  this  city  and  vicinity.  In  yonder 
library  of  Harvard  University  is  his  fine  bust  of  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson; 
the  Town  Hall  of  Lexington  contains  a  statue  of  John  Hancock  ;  while 
in  the  Public  Library  Building  of  Concord  is  one  of  its  liberal  donor  to 
the  town,  William  Munroe.  By  commission  from  the  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic,  he  executed  the  beautiful  statue  of  the  noble  Andrew  which 
stands  in  the  burial  lot  of  our  great  war  governor  at  Hingham-by-the-Sea. 
New  York  City  claims  a  bust  of  the  elder  Booth  ;  while  in  the  vestibule 


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JOIIX    BRIDGE,    TIIE    PURITAN.  15 

of  the  Boston  Herald  Building  his  artisticfflustration  of  steam  and  electricity 

may  ho  admired.  His  portrait  statue  of  Kinur  Kamehameha  the  First,  at 
Honolulu,  is  a  notable  one,  as  well  as  thai  ideal  conception  entitled  the 
"Ascending Spirit, "which is  appropriately  placed  on  the  burial  lot  in 
Forest  Hill  Cemetery  where  the  mortal  remains  of  the  talented  sculptor 
now  repose. 

And  now  need  I  repeat,  as  the  representative  of  the  city,  that  T  accept 
with  pride  and  pleasure  this  statue  of  the  devoted  Puritan  and  non-con- 
formist, so  liberally  and  handsomely  bestowed  by  Mr.  Bridge?  and  we 
will  ever  preserve  it  amid  its  pleasant  surroundings  with  especial  care,  so 
that  it  may  teach  to  our  children's  children  to  a  late  generation  the 
courage,  the  self-denial,  the  humble  yet  heroic  religious  spirit  of  as  brave 
and  honest  a  body  of  Christian  adventurers  as,  acting  under  their  own 
light,  have  ever  existed,  who  did  so  much  towards  setting  forward  the 
Redeemer's  kingdom  upon  earth,  and  who  so  honestly  labored  to  establish 
on  this  western  continent  what  they  deemed  tobeagreat  good,  viz., 
"A  Church  without  a  Bishop,  and  a  State  without  a  King." 

After  the  close  of  his  address,  the  Mayor  said  :  — 
"  A  descendant  of  the  Puritans  has  been  invited  to  speak  to  you  to-day. 
I  take  pleasure  in  introducing  Col.  Thomas  W.  Iligginson." 

Col.  Higginsoa  then  delivered  the  dedicatory  address  of  the 
occasion,  as  follows  :  — 

The  man  whose  name  we  to-day  commemorate  represents  none  of  those 
classes  which  have  hitherto  almost  monopolized  bronze  and  marble.  He 
was  neither  general  nor  statesman,  neither  poet  nor  author.  Xo  encyclo- 
paedia records  his  name,  no  history  of  the  nation  mentions  him.  Is  it  not 
strange  that  under  these  circumstances  we  should  meet  to  dedicate  his 
statue?  On  the  contrary,  it  is  for  this  very  reason.  It  is  a  characteristic 
of  the  rising  art  of  America,  that,  unlike  the  art  of  older  nations,  it  cele- 
brates the  common  man.  Yonder  silent  figure  upon  our  soldier-'  monu- 
ment does  not  wear  the  uniform  of  the  brilliant  general  of  cavalry,  whose 
name  heads  the  inscription  below,  but  that  of  the  hundreds  of  private 
soldiers  whose  names  follow.  It  is  the  same  with  nearly  all  of  the  thou- 
sand other  soldiers'  monuments  throughout  the  land.  In  the  same  way, 
going  back  to  the  Revolution,  we  have  French's  "  Minute-Man"  at  Con- 
cord. Following  the  same  instinctive  tendency,  going  back  to  the  settle- 
ment of  the  country,  we  have  before  us  not  Winthropj  not  Endicott,  lot 
the  private  soldier,  or  at  most  the  non-commissioned  officer  of  the  early 
Cambridge  settlement,  the  typical  Puritan,  plain  John  Bridge. 

It  is  the  first  time,  so  far  as  I  know,  that  the  e very-day  Puritan  has 
appeared  in  sculpture.  In  the  time  when  the  clergy  were  kings  or 
viceroys,  this  man  was  content  to  be  a  deacon.  In  the  time  when  this 
very  Cambridge  Common,  where  we  stand,  was  the  scene  where  gov- 
ernors were  elected,  John  kBridge  was  satisfied  with  an  office  which  is 


16  JOHX    BEIDGE,    THE    PURITAN. 

to  this  day  a  school  of  humility,  and  was  member  of  the  "  Great  and  General 
Court."'  He  was,  in  the  expressive  phrase  of  that  day,  a  "townsman." 
He  stands  for  the  plain  people,  who  founded  the  little  settlement,  and 
built  for  their  defence  the  great  "  pallysadoe  "  and  "fosse"  which  once 
passed  within  a  rod  or  two  of  where  the  statue  stands,  and  which  have 
left  their  memorials  to  this  day  in  the  willow-trees  of  yonder  play-ground. 
John  Bridge  probably  worked  in  person  on  those  defences;  he  was  one  of 
those  who  kept  back  the  Indian  and  brought  civilization  forward;  he 
stands  for  the  average  ancestry  of  us  all.  Whatever  we  now  possess  we 
owe,  in  a  general  sense,  to  the  fact  that  our  forefathers  were  even  such 
men  as  John  Bridge. 

But,  beyond  this,  we  owe  a  peculiar  debt  to  him  individually.  It  hap- 
pened to  him  to  be  instrumental,  in  a  special  way.  for  preserving  the  very 
existence  of  the  little  settlement.  He  came  to  America  in  1631,  probably 
as  a  member  of  a  company  from  Braintree.  England,  which  settled  first 
near  Mount  WbUaston,  and  then  was  removed  hither  by  order  of  the 
General  Court,  being  soon  joined  by  Rev.  Thomas  Hooker,  who  became 
their  pastor.  John  Bridge  came  to  Cambridge,  then  Xewtown.  in  1632; 
owned  land  here  in  that  year,  and  became  a  freeman  March  4. 1635.  He 
lived  at  that  time  on  the  northeast  corner  of  Dunster  and  South  Streets, 
owning  also  a  house  on  Holyoke  Street  soon  after.  In  1630  came  an  event 
which  very  nearly  brought  about  the  extinction  of  the  little  settlement. 
Parson  Hooker,  moved  by  the  earliest  outbreak  of  what  has  since  been 
called  the  Western  fever,  made  up  his  mind  that  the  village,  with 
its  sixty-two  houses,  was  too  crowded  for  him  and  too  near  other  villages. 
This  was  at  least  the  nominal  reason  why  he  and  the  bulk  of  his  congrega- 
tion resolved  to  set  off  through  the  woods  to  Connecticut  with  wife  and 
child,  bag  and  baggage,  cows  and  oxen,  there  to  establish  a  transplanted 
Xewtown  at  what  is  now  Hartford.  It  is  very  possible  that  this  formida- 
ble secession  might  have  been  the  death  of  the  little  town,  but  for  one  fact, 
that  John  Bridge  decided,  in  his  sturdy  Puritan  spirit,  to  stay  where  he 
was  and  save  the  settlement. 

The  way  in  which  he  saved  it  was  this:  There  was  at  that  time  in 
England  a  young  clergyman  named  Shepard,  not  yet  thirty  years  old,  but 
of  such  repute  for  piety  and  eloquence  that  he  has  come  down  to  posterity 
with  four  resounding  epithets  forever  linked  to  his  name,  —  "  the  holy, 
heavenly,  sweet-affecting,  and  soul-ravishing  Mr.  Shepard."  We  know 
from  his  own  autobiography  that  he  came  to  America  by  the  urgent 
request  of  friends:  but  the  only  friend  whose  name  he  mentions  is  John 
Bridge.  He  came  at  the  most  opportune  time,  with  a  company  of  sixty, 
and  was  persuaded  to  remain  temporarily,  at  least,  in  Cambridge.  He 
and  his  party  stayed  permanently;  they  took  the  meeting-house  of  Mr. 
Hooker,  the  dwelling-houses  of  his  parishioners;  and  when,  upon  a  day 
in  June  in  1636,  Mr.  Hooker  and  his  hundred  men,  women,  and  children 
went  with  their  oxen  and  cows  through  the  streets  into  the  wilderness, 
Mr.  Shepard  and  his  sixty  stood  at  their  newly  acquired  front-doors  and 
bade  them  farewell.     Exit  Hooker;  enter  Shepard:  but  John  Bridge  was 


JOTIX    BRIDGE,    THE    PURITAN.  17 

the  link  between.  Tie  was  like  the  French  herald  whose  duty  it  was  to 
proclaim  the  kind's  death  and  the  accession  of  his  successor.  •■  /.•  roi  est 
rot."  It  would  have  been  strange  indued  if  when  the  new 
church  was  organized  John  Bridge  had  n<>t  become  its  first  deacon.  lie 
was.  as  the  facetious  Cotton  Mather  would  undoubtedly  have  said,  had  he 
but  thought  of  it.  ••  the  Bridge  that  carried  us  <>•. 

And,  as  it  turned  out.  by  securin--  Mr.  Shepard  he  secured  not  the  town 
only  hut  the  college.  That  was  placed  here  partly  for  the  sake  of  the 
climate,  but  more  for  Mr.  Shepard*  s  sake.  It  was  because  of  him.  Cotton 
Mather  tells  us.  that  this,  w'  rather  than  any  other  place,  was  pitched  upon 
to  be  the  site  of  that  happy  seminary."  There  was  thus  a  regular  chain 
of  circumstances.  It  was  because  of  Deacon  Bridge  that  Mi-.  Shepard 
came:  because  of  Mr.  Shepard  that  the  college  came;  because  of  the  col- 
hat  the  name  came,  taken  from  the  English  university  town. 
Whether  John  Bridge  was  or  was  not  identical  with  the  "Mr.  Ibidges" 
who  gave  the  infant  college  £o0  in  1638,  and  who  united  with  others  in 
giving  it  £20  worth  of  goods  four  years  after,  this  cannot  now  be  deter- 
mined; but  the  point  beyond  question  is.  that  he  indirectly  secured  its 
presence  in  Cambridge  and  all  the  advantages  that  have  come  to  both 
college  and  city  from  the  combination. 

Under  such  circumstances.  John  Bridge  began  the  duties  of  what  an 
i  poet  calls  the  "mild  diaconate" — not  so  mild  then  as  now.  In 
those  days,  when  the  village  and  parish  were  one,  the  minister  was  com- 
mander and  the  deacon  was  orderly  sergeant.  In  that  capacity  John 
Bridge  may  have  personally  beaten  the  drum  which  was  used  in  1636, 
according  to  Johnson,  to  call  the  people  of  the  village  to  church.  At  any 
rate  he  doubtless  superintended  the  offices  of  the  church,  and  the  schooling 
of  the  children,  so  far  as  it  went;  he  was  deacon  for  twenty-two  years, 
selectman  for  twelve  years,  and  member  of  the  Legislature  for  four.  He 
was  frequently  employed  in  the  settlement  of  estates  and  in  determining 
the  boundaries  of  towns.  He  was  one  of  the  commissioners  appointed  by 
the  town  when  Billerica  was  set  off  from  it.  and  his  son  was  one  of  the 
ttlers  of  Lexington,  both  of  these  towns  having  been  included  in 
the  unwieldy  Cambridge  of  that  day.  John  Bridge's  own  homestead  was 
outside  the  village,  and  included  twelve  acres  not  far  from  where  Craigie 
House  now  stands:  he  also  owned  a  strip  opposite,  on  the  south  side  of 
tlie  Watertown  road,  and  running  to  the  river.  It  included  five  acres  of 
marsh  and  one  of  upland,  perhaps  including  part  of  the  very  field  across 
which  our  poet  Longfellow  loved  to  look  at  the  winding  Charles.  In  this 
homestead,  then  a  rural  region,  he  lived  until  his  death  in  IGO.j;  and  it  is 
it  to  find  that  his  son,  in  transferring  a  part  of  the  real  estate  at  a 
later  period,  descril  'the   mansion  house  of  my  honored  father, 

>d."'  It  i-  not  always  that  sons  remember  to  express  respect  for 
their  fathers  when  disposing  of  their  property. 

It  is  in  a  similar  feeling  of  respect  to  that  worthy  man  that  we  honor  his 
monument  to-day.  Bronze  corrodes  and  marble  crumbles,  but  they  are, 
nevertheless,  among  the  most  permanent  of  earthly  things;  and  this  modest 


18  JOIIX    BEIDGE,    THE    PURITAN. 

Puritan  name  "will  take  long  life  from  this  event.  One  of  the  most  famous 
of  modern  English  sonnets  describes  an  imaginary  traveller  in  the  Easl  as 
finding  in  the  desert  two  vast  and  trunkless  legs  of  stone,  with  a  carved 
and  broken  head  resting  near  them.     On  the  pedestal  appears, — 

"  My  name  is  Ozymandias,  king  of  kings, 
Look  on  my  works,  ye  mighty,  and  despair." 

And  the  poet  adds :  — 

"  Nothing  heside  remains.  Round  the  decay 
Of  that  colossal  wreck,  boundless  and  bare, 
The  lone  and  level  sands  stretch  far  away." 

But  of  -what  consequence  was  this  desolation?  The  statue  fulfilled  its 
object.  The  disappearance  of  all  else  only  vindicated  the  foresight  of  the 
monarch,  and  the  name  of  Ozymandias  is  immortal.  And  thus  the  pious 
reverence  of  the  descendants  of  this  plain  Puritan  will  achieve  its  end. 
The  name  of  Johu  Bridge,  rescued  from  oblivion  and  made  the  type  of 
the  founders  of  our  civilization,  is  destined  to  be  transmitted  on  the  lips  of 
children's  children  yet  unborn. 

"When  Col.  Higginson  had  concluded,  the  Mayor  said  :  — 

"From  what  has  been  said  by  the  orator  of  the  day,  there  is  no  doubt 
that  John  Bridge,  whom  we  commemorate,  was  deeply  interested  in  educa- 
tion, and  might  have  been  a  worker  in  its  behalf  in  the  early  days  of  our 
college.  It  seems  eminently  fitting,  therefore,  that  a  representative  of 
that  college  should  be  heard  upon  this  occasion.  I  introduce  to  you 
President  Eliot." 

President  Eliot  said  :  — 

"  TVhat  is  this  durable  monument  in  stone  and  bronze  to  say  to  us  and 
to  coming  generations  ?     It  will  say.  — 

"  It  is  good  to  stand  stoutly  in  one's  lot,  doing  faithfully  and  generously 
the  homely  duties  of  each  day. 

"  It  is  good  to  leave  behind  sturdy  and  thrifty  descendants  to  transmit 
one's  name  and  recall  one's  memory  through  long  generations. 

"It  is  good  to  have  one's  life,  though  humble  and  obscure,  represent 
to  posterity  great  ideas. 

"  The  simple  life  of  this  Puritan  pioneer  in  barren  Newtown  foretold  the 
life  of  the  teeming  millions  who  in  two  centuries  were  to  vivify  the  wild 
continent.  It  was  a  worthy  vehicle  of  three  pregnant  principles,  —  free- 
dom of  thought,  political  freedom,  and  freedom  to  worship  God." 

Mayor  Fox :  — 

"  You  have  heard  from  a  descendant  of  the  Puritans,  you  have  also 
heard  from  the  representative  of  Harvard  College  :  let  me  now  introduce 
to  yon  a  lineal  descendant  of  John  Bridge  himself,  General,  and  now 
Judge  De  vens." 


JOHN    BRIDGE,    THE    PUEITAN.  19 


Judge  Devests'  Addi 

Mr.  Mayhi::  — As  a  descendant  from  John  Bridge,  one  degree  further 
removed  than  my  kinsman  whose  graceful  liberality  lias  presented  this 
statue  of  <>ur  ancestor  to  the  city  of  Cambridge,  I  thank  you  for  the 
opportunity  of  beingpresent  upon  this  occasion.  There  is  little  to  remind 
us  in  this  splendid  city,  adorned  with  the  buildin  greal  university, 

in  external  things  at  least,  of  the  humble  hamlet  defended  by  its  palisade 
in  which  a  band  of  exiles  struggling  with  the  stern  soil,  the  inhospitable 
climate,  the  hostile  savage,  sought  to  make  for  themselves  a  home  in  which 
they  could  worship  God  according  to  the  dictates  of  their  own  con- 
ice. 

It  may  he  true,  it  no  doubt  is  true,  that  there  are  others  equally  worthy 
to  In,- commemorated  with  John  Bridge, yet  as  he  has  been  descrif-ed  to 
us  in  the  remarks  of  Col.  Higginson,  to  whi  rches  we  are  all  sin- 

cerely indebted,  as  its  first  townsman  for  many  years,  as  the  deacon  of  its 
church,  as  its  representative  in  the  councils  of  the  infant  colony,  I 
suitable  representative  of  the  founders  of  this  town.     He  is  in  this  place 
;  Iso  a  suitable  representative  of  that  great  race  of  men  to  whom  he  be- 
longi  d,  the  English  Puritans. 

The  Puritan  emigration  to  Xew  England  was  a  part  of  the  struggle 
which  had  already  commenced  between  King  Charles  and  his  people. 
However  that  might  end,  one  place  they  were  determined  should  exist 
where  they  should  be  free  to  praclise  their  own  faith  and  to  act  as  that 
taught  them.  Profound  as  was  their  belief  in  a  higher  power,  they  knew 
that  God  works  by  human  means  and  agencies,and  that  it  was  for  them 
to  endeavor  to  compass  that  for  which  they  prayed  by  all  the  instrumen- 
talities at  their  command.  They  believed  in  the  sword  of  the  Lord  and 
of  Gideon,  but  the  sword  of  Gideon  for  them  was  the  good  weapon  that 
hung  in  their  own  belts,  and  whose  hilt  was  within  the  grasp  of  their  own 
strong  right  hands. 

"We  may  imagine,  if  we  cannot  know,  the  intense  interest  with  which. 
during  the  years  John  Bridge  lived  here,  these  people  watched  the  progress 
of  that  English  Revolution  which  has  made  of  all  who  speak  tl 
tongue  a  free  people.  Here  they  heard  of  the  open  war  in  England  be- 
tween their  king  and  his  Parliament,  of  the  first  doubtful  and  undecided 
conflicts  under  the  inefficient  commanders  on  behalf  of  the  Parliament,  of 
the  rise  of  the  great  Puritan  soldier  Cromwell,  of  the  victories  of  Naseby, 
Dunbar,  and  finally  of  Worcester,  and  of  the  complete  triumph  of  the 
Puritan  party.  Here.  too.  came  later  the  sad  news  of  that  September 
day  when  the  Lord  Protector  sank  to  his  eternal  rest,  and  the  way  was 
open  lor  the  return  of  the  king  to  England.  Although  he  heard  of  all 
these  events.  John  Bridge  did  not  live  long  enough  i<>  know  of  the  second 
-:i  Revolution  which  was  so  promptly  responded  to  in  Massachusetts 
and  which  finally  drove  the  Stuart  kings  into  exile.  To  him  it  may  have 
Seemed  as  if  this  contest  had  failed.  He  certainly  could  not  have  real- 
ized how  vast  was  the  work  which  the  Puritans  had  dune  and   were  to  do 


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JOHX   BEIDGE,    THE    FCBITAN. 


on  this  as  well  as  the  other  side  of  the  water,  or  how  great  was  the  im- 
pression they  would  make  on  the  people  of  a  vast  continent. 

Mr.  G.  W.  Curtis  has  said,  "  Through  all  our  history,  from  the  deposition 
of  Andros  to  Bunker  iliU,  and  from  the  Declaration  of  Independence  to 
the  Proclamation  of  Emancipation,  the  dominant  power  in  American 
civilization  has  been  the  genius  of  Puritan  England." 

If  we  look  back  to  the  days  of  the  Revolution  vre  see  how  strong 
was  its  influence  over  those  who  conducted  it.  Mr.  Winthrop,  who  (I 
may.  without  impropriety  say.  now  that  he  is  absent  from  us  and  separated 
by  the  stormy  sea)  emulates  so  well  the  dignified  and  scholarly  virtues  of 
his  illustrious  ancestor,  has  in  one  of  his  recent  orations  preserved  a  let- 
ter of  Col.  Prescott  which  might  in  its  spirit  have  been  written  by  one  of 
the  Puritans  themselves.  I  quote  it  from  memory,  and  not  with  entire 
verbal  accuracy.  "  Our  forefathers,-  says  he.  "  passed  the  vast  Atlantic, 
spent  their  blood  and  treasure  that  they  might  enjoy  their  liberties  both 
civil  and  religious,  and  transmit  them  to  their  posterity.-  .  .  .  .  "  Is 
not  a  glorious  death  in  defence  of  our  liberties  better  than  a  short  and 
infamous  life,  and  our  memory  to  be  had  in  detestation  to  the  latest  pos- 
terity ?  Let  us  all  be  of  one  mind,  and  stand  fast  in  the  liberties  wherewith 
Christ  has  made  us  free:  and  may  he  of  his  infinite  mercy  grant  us  deliv- 
erance out  of  all  our  troubles!  " 

This  was  a  letter  written  on  behalf  of  the  farmers  of  Pepperell  to  the 
inhabitants  of  Boston  some  months  before  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill.  As 
we  stand  here  we  recall  that  summer  night  of  the  16th  of  June.  1775, 
when  the  two  regiments  selected  by  Prescott,  one  his  own,  the  other 
commanded  by  Col.  Ebenezer  Bridge  of  Lexington,  the  great-grandson  of 
John,  stood  here  upon  this  very  Common  together,  and  the  venerable  pres- 
ident of  the  College  came  from  his  study  to  invoke  the  blessing  of  God 
on  their  expedition. 

Not,  Mr.  Mayor,  when  the  hour  of  trial  came  in  our  day  and  generation 
to  us,  was  the  influence  of  these  Puritan  forefathers  absent.  It  is  at  such 
a  time  they  will  always  be  freshly  remembered.  Let  then  this  statue 
staud,  in  its  simple  Puritan  garb,  in  memory  of  one  of  the  founders  of  this 
city,  of  the  race  of  men  to  whom  he  belonged,  and  in  honor  to  their  sim- 
ple lives,  their  high  courage,  and  their  unswerving  faith. 

At  the  conclusion  of  Judge  Devens'  address,  the  audience 
again  joined  in  singing  a  hymn  with  the  organ  accompaniment. 

Hymn.  —  "  America.  "    J.  S.  Dwight. 

I  Mess  our  native  land! 
Firm  may  she  ever  stand, 

Through  storm  and  night: 
When  the  wild  tempests  rave, 
Ruler  of  wind  and  wave, 
Do  thou  our  country  save 

B3  tin  great  might. 


JOHX   BRIDGE,    THE    PURITAN.  21 

For  her  our  prayer  shall  rise 
To  God  above  the  skies, 

On  him  we  wait; 
Thou  who  ail  ever  nigh, 
Guarding  with  watchful  eye, 
To  thee  aloud  we  cry, 

God  save  the  state! 

A  benediction  was  then  pronounced  by  Rev.  Edward  II.  Hall, 
of  the  First  Parish  Church,  and  the  audience  then  adjourned  to 
the  Common  to  witness  the  ceremony  of  unveiling. 

The  Unveiling. 

"When  all  had  reassembled  around  the  statue,  which  was  en- 
tirely covered  with  cloth,  Mayor  Fox  spoke  as  follows  :  — 

"  This  statue  of  John  Bridge,  the  Puritan,  presented  to  the  city  of  Cam- 
bridge hy  one  of  his  descendants  in  the  sixth  generation,  having  been 
formally  accepted,  it  is  my  direction  that  it  be  now  unveiled.*' 

At  the  signal  of  the  Mayor,  the  folds  of  the  covering  quickly 
separated,  and  it  fell  to  the  base  of  the  statue,  disclosing  an 
undoubted  impersonation  of  the  typical  Puritan,  in  whose  stern 
and  resolute  countenance  is  fully  reflected  the  strong  character 
of  the  men  who  founded  our  New  England  institutions  of  free- 
dom and  education. 

The  following  inscriptions  are  upon  the  pedestal  of  the  statue  : 

[FRONT.] 

JOHN      BRIDGE 
1578-1665 

LEFT     BRAIXTREE,     ESSEX     COIXTY,     ENGLAND,     1631 

AS  A  MEMBER  OF  REV.  MR.  HOOKER'S  COMPANY 

SETTLED    HERE    1632 

AND    STAID    WHEN     THAT     COMPANY 

REMOVED  TO  THE  CONNECTICUT. 

HE    HAD    SUPERVISION    OF    THE    FIRST    PUBLIC    SCHOOL 

ESTABLISHED   IN    CAMBRIDGE    1635 

WAS    SELECTMAN    1635-1652 

DEACON    OF    THE    CHURCH    1636-1658 

REPRESENTATIVE    TO    THE    GREAT    AND    GENERAL    COURT    1637-1641 

AM>    WAS    APPOINTED    P.Y    THAT    BODY-    TO    LAT    OUT    LANDS 

IN    Ilils    Io».s    AND    BEYOND 


22  JOHN    BRIDGE,    THE    PURITAN. 

[back.] 

ERECTED 

AND    GIVEN    TO    THE    CITY 

SEPT.    20,    1882, 

BY 

SAMUEL    JAMES    BRIDGE, 

OF     THE     SIXTH     GENERATION 

FROM    JOHN    BRIDGE. 


[RIGHT.] 

THEY     THAT     WAIT     UPON     THE     LORD 
SHALL    RENEW    THEIR    STRENGTH. 


[left.] 
THIS   PURITAN 

HELPED    TO    ESTABLISH    HERE 

CHURCH,    SCHOOL 

AND    REPRESENTATIVE    GOVERNMENT 

AND    THUS    TO    PLANT 

A    CHRISTIAN    COMMONWEALTH. 


Descendants  of  John 
Bridge. 


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The  long  expected  and  much  desired  Bridge  Genealogy,  com- 
piled by  Rev.  W.  F.  Bridge,  of  Ohio,  is  at  last  completed. 

I  am  surprised  to  find  in  it  the  names  of  so  many  that  have 
held  high  positions  in  the  Country.  The  book  includes  a  Pres- 
ident of  the  United  States,  member  of  the  Cabinet,  Foreign 
Ministers,  Consuls,  Judges  of  the  Supreme  and  Superior  Courts, 
Judges  of  Probate,  and  Registers  of  Probate,  a  Presidential 
Elector,  Officers  of  the  United  States  Customs,  Officers  of  the 
Army  and  Navy,  Officers  of  note,  and  faithful,  self  denying  sol- 
diers in  the  war  of  the  Rebellion,  a  United  States  Attorney 
General,  and  a  Marshal,  High  Sheriffs,  and  Deputy  Sheriffs, 
Mayors  of  Cities,  Governor's  Council,  Selectmen,  and  other 
Municipal  Officers,  Postmasters,  Eminent  Lawyers,  Clergymen, 
Physicians,  Engineers,  Geologists,  Professors,  Teachers,  Mer- 
chants, Horticulturists,  Landscape  Gardeners.  Planters,  Farmers, 
&c.  No  family  in  New  England  can  show  a  better  record.  We 
have  much  to  be  thankful  for, 

Yours  truly, 

SAMUEL  J.   BRIDGE. 
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